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The flu vaccine is only 10 percent effective this year. Blame eggs.
Vox ^ | February 2, 2018

Posted on 02/11/2018 10:20:00 AM PST by SMGFan

The way we make vaccines isn’t a good match for the virus type circulating this year.

he first data on how well the flu vaccine is working this season in North America has just been published — and it helps explain why everyone appears to be sick right now.

The study, from the journal Eurosurveillance, found that the flu vaccine was only 10 percent effective against H3N2 (the main flu subtype going around in the US this season) among adults aged 20 to 64 years old in Canada — the age group that made up the majority of participants in the study. The protection rate rose to 17 percent when considering all age groups.

In most adults, the study suggests the shot would only prevent 10 percent of H3N2 flu cases. So if 100 in 1,000 unvaccinated people develop flu, the number would drop to 90 in 1,000 among vaccinated people — a very small difference in flu risk between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. And more than 80 percent of confirmed US flu cases have involved H3N2.

“The evidence is mounting, from Australia and now from Canada, that the vaccine protection is low [this year],” said lead study author Danuta Skowronski, an influenza epidemiologist at the British Columbia Center for Disease Control. “Given the same H3N2 subtype [is circulating in the US], our estimate of low vaccine protection should also apply to the US.”

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To: SMGFan

I don’t think they put enough autism in the vaccine. The more autism in it, the better it works


41 posted on 02/12/2018 7:01:17 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Lopeover

“Did you know Bill Gates doesn’t allow his kids to be vaccinated for the flu?”

Proof please.


42 posted on 02/12/2018 7:03:21 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Maudeen

The vaccine cannot kill you nor can it give you the Flu.


43 posted on 02/12/2018 7:05:34 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: SMGFan

Remember that the people who died from the flu were probably deficient in vitamin D3, the cheapest vitamin to supplement with the maximum effectiveness. It fights cancer too, at the prevention stage. It might not keep you from getting symptoms when exposed to the flu, but a therapeutic dose plus your good sleep habits probably will prevent you getting symptoms, but it for sure will allow you to have a survivable case.

It’s far better than this vaccine and uses pure science. Vaccines use old “science” and are administered primitively. The reason vaccine science has not been updated is because these products are protected by the government and don’t have to modernize. No one questions the conditions of health of the people they jab, and truth: for some, vaccines would be quite contraindicated.


44 posted on 02/12/2018 7:07:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: SMGFan
What is much more than 10% effective is if people with symptoms would stay home
45 posted on 02/12/2018 7:14:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: AppyPappy

http://yournewswire.com/bill-gates-doctor-vaccinate/


46 posted on 02/12/2018 7:52:18 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Lopeover

That source is sketchy. After all, doctor-patient confidentiality just went out the window. Obviously, Gates knew his doctor’s identity in the 1990’s. This guy would be working at a gas station if he told people this kind of thing.


47 posted on 02/12/2018 7:57:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Lopeover

As I suspected, Fake news.

https://www.business2community.com/us-news/bill-gates-former-doctor-saying-billionaire-refused-vaccinate-children-fake-news-02009835


48 posted on 02/12/2018 7:58:35 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

The doctor was giving a talk among colleagues. Only Gates himself can disprove the comment. Just because the Gates Foundation approves of vaccines for third world poor, does not equate to proof that he vaccinated his own children.


49 posted on 02/12/2018 8:18:14 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Lopeover

See the link that refutes the story as Fake News from a site that itself says that the stories on its website may not be accurate.


50 posted on 02/12/2018 8:19:22 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Lopeover

From the site that says Gates didn’t vaccinate his kids:
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51 posted on 02/12/2018 8:20:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: drypowder

Of the Adenovirus or Enterovirus family?


52 posted on 02/12/2018 8:50:48 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: AppyPappy

Of course. Doesn’t prove or disprove it. Only Gates can prove or disprove what their family former doctor said.


53 posted on 02/12/2018 9:18:30 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Lopeover

It doesn’t prove anything. The story is an undocumented, unsourced and unsubstantiated rumor on a site that admits its articles may not be genuine.

You may as well be posting Onion articles as proof of something.

I know you want to believe the story but its just the normal anti-vaxx lies about everything.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 9:44:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

The vaccine caused body paralysis which led to her death.


55 posted on 02/12/2018 10:40:50 AM PST by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer . . . Now What is the Question?)
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To: bluejean

You call it Captain Trips but around here folks call it Tube Neck.


56 posted on 02/12/2018 11:54:42 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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