Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel

Purpose: Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference. Test-negative study designs are often utilized to calculate influenza vaccine effectiveness. The virus interference phenomenon goes against the basic assumption of the test-negative vaccine effectiveness study that vaccination does not change the risk of infection with other respiratory illness, thus potentially biasing vaccine effectiveness results in the positive direction.

This study aimed to investigate virus interference by comparing respiratory virus status among Department of Defense personnel based on their influenza vaccination status. Furthermore, individual respiratory viruses and their association with influenza vaccination were examined.

Results: We compared vaccination status of 2880 people with non-influenza respiratory viruses to 3240 people with pan-negative results. Comparing vaccinated to non-vaccinated patients, the adjusted odds ratio for non-flu viruses was 0.97 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.86, 1.09; p = 0.60). Additionally, the vaccination status of 3349 cases of influenza were compared to three different control groups: all controls (N = 6120), non-influenza positive controls (N = 2880), and pan-negative controls (N = 3240). The adjusted ORs for the comparisons among the three control groups did not vary much (range: 0.46-0.51).

Conclusions: Receipt of influenza vaccination was not associated with virus interference among our population. Examining virus interference by specific respiratory viruses showed mixed results. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus; however, significant protection with vaccination was associated not only with most influenza viruses, but also parainfluenza, RSV, and non-influenza virus coinfections.

You can read the conclusion first. Getting the flu shot may increase your susceptibility to CoroaViruses. So, it's a Hobson's Choice for me; get the vaccine, and provide some (the flu vaccine is about 30% effective and a coin toss every year as there are many influenza diseases) protection from the flu, etc., and open yourself up to coronaviruses and pneumonia.

This is what I do: no flu shots ever, exercise, plenty of sleep, no sugar and snacks, eat well, take Vitamins: A ((1)25,000 IU per week), D (10,000 IU per day) with fatty foods, Vitamin-C (2K mg. per day), zinc (30 mg. per day) Astragalus (1 cap per day), n-acetyl cysteine (1,200 mg. per day, great for healthy lungs) and at the first sign of a scratchy throat or sniffles, I add: elderberry, echinacea, goldenseal, olive-leaf extract and up the Vitamin-C to 10K mg. per day, buying Nyquil, etc. only treats the symptoms, not the virus itself. Antibiotics do NOT treat viral diseases, that's why we get our vaccines for viruses when we are young; viruses are parasites made up of DNA, antibiotics are used for bacteria that are living entities.

Also, most vaccines are derived from aborted, fetal-cell lines.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cogforlife/index?tab=articles

Looks to me like you're doing things right.

You might want to also do some research on the anti-viral properties of oregano essential oil.

About 2 1/2 years ago I started coming down with some sort of respiratory issue. Severe nasal congestion, heavy phlegm, cough, cough, cough to try to loosen it up. Felt like it was going to be one of those REALLY bad ones. I used the oregano essential oil in a diffuser so I'd be breathing it in to the body area that seemed to have the illness. Replenished the oil every couple of hours. Less than 24 hours later I was 100% cured of whatever I had come down with. Symptoms were completely gone.

I haven't had a scratchy throat or sniffles or anything else since then. I've never had a flu shot. I work at keeping a healthy immune system so I don't get sick. Other than going to the doctor for treatment of an injury, I haven't found any reason to see a doctor in over 20 years.

FYI, for a diffuser I use a mesh tea ball. I put a bit of crumpled up paper towel inside it, and put drops of oil on the paper. Hang the tea ball in front of a small fan to speed up the process of getting the vapors circulating into the room. I never saw the logic of those powered diffusers that have you put the oil on top of water. Oil and water don't mix, so what's the point of that design?

Since many of the various essential oils also have antibiotic properties, there should also be a disinfecting effect of the oils settling on whatever they settle on.

When I worked for the Air Force Ihad to take the flu shot. For the next 3 years everything that came around I got it.

I chanced a court martial in '67 at Ft Campbell with the 101st. Was getting all my overseas vaccinations in the same time period for deployment to Vietnam and ducked out of the flu shot line after I had already been checked in. The 60's flu shots were live virus and could make you sicker than hell. I figured if they caught my skipping it what would they do ? Send me to 'Nam?

“Receipt of influenza vaccination was not associated with virus interference among our population. Examining virus interference by specific respiratory viruses showed mixed results. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus.”

A followup case study needs to be done soon, that finds the flu-vaccination rate among Cov-19 positive cases, and among them in particular the cases that required hospitalization and/or ended in death.

As for me, I have never had the flu vaccine and never had the flu.

I realize this is an old thread but I didn’t see a newer one that discussed ‘virus interference’.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X19313647?via%3Dihub#!

This article has this as one of the conclusions at the end....
“Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus. However, significant protection with vaccination was associated not only with most influenza viruses, but also parainfluenza, RSV, and non-influenza virus co-infections.”

In layperson language, does this not say that there is evidence that a person taking a flu shot might be more vulnerable to a coronavirus even though they may be protected against many other forms of infection?

And here is the logical follow up question to this that no one will want to ask........

There has been a huge push on for people to get the flu shot in recent years. I seem to remember that people in the health care industry have it as a mandatory requirement that they must take the flu shot.... is that not the case? Also... if I was to go down the hallways of a typical nursing or longterm care facility anywhere, would I not find that over 90% of the folks there have had a flu shot?

With the foregoing in mind, is this the real reason that the WuFlu mortality rate is so much higher for the people in nursing homes and long term care facilities?

I think that these are certainly legitimate questions and I dare a reporter to ask that of Fauci and Birx at the next news conference that they are at!

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