Flu shots have to work, right? So the NIH launched an effort to do "The" definitive study that would actually prove, for the first time, once and for all, that flu shots were beneficial to the elderly.
Read the government study that found no flu shot benefit in elderly In 2006, lead author Lone Simonsen spoke with me on the phone and agreed to do an on camera interview with me on her study results, which she felt were very important.
Flu shots weren't correlated with declining mortality in any age group.
Read Simonsen's commentary on her study Read current CDC flu information Here's my original video story on the topic.
Over 20 years, the percentage of seniors getting flu shots increased sharply from 15% to 65%. It stands to reason that flu deaths among the elderly should have taken a dramatic dip making an "X" graph like this.
No matter how they crunched the numbers, they got the same disappointing result: flu shots had not reduced deaths among the elderly.
The researchers said they could not correlate flu shots with reduced deaths in any age group.
Dr. Reichert: "We were trying to do something mainstream. That's for sure." Sharyl: "Were you surprised?" Dr. Reichert: "Astonished." Sharyl: "Did you check the data a couple of times to make sure?" Dr. Reichert: "Well, even more than that. We've looked at other countries now and the same is true." That international study, soon to be published, finds the same poor results in Australia, France, Canada and the UK. And other new research stokes the idea that decades of promoting flu shots in seniors, and the billions spent, haven't had the desired result.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC: "There's an active dialogue about how we can do better to prevent influenza and its complications in the elderly." So what's an older person to do? Oddly enough, the CDC says they should still get their flu shots.
Watch for CDC to likely shift in the near future more toward protecting the elderly in a roundabout way by pushing to vaccinate more children and others around the who could give them the flu.
https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/govt-researchers-flu-shots-not-effective
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