If a flu vaccine is sooo effective, why do 40,000 die each year in the U.S. because of the flu?
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I have read many post flu season news stories over the years that substantiate this point. Frequently, the article notes how the season's flu vaccination was not particularly helpful because the experts guessed wrong about the season's particular strain.
Personally, I don't waste my time with flu shots -- even though I could receive them free.
I have read many post flu season news stories over the years that substantiate this point. Frequently, the article notes how the season's flu vaccination was not particularly helpful because the experts guessed wrong about the season's particular strain.
Personally, I don't waste my time with flu shots -- even though I could receive them free.
Tinfoil hat alert! Oh crap - here come the bluehats in their stealth helicopters...
Bump.
My doctor scoffs at me every time i try to make the vaccine connection.
I'm glad it's finally almost gone thank god but I can still feel it a little.
I will NEVER get a flu shot ever again.
I had 2 other vaccines that day as well. Who knows which one caused this.
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This is an outstanding article! Unfortunately almost no one is seeing it because you should have posted it under News where there is a lot of traffic. Please repost it there so we can get a real discussion going.
...”Shannon Brownlee?” Greetings, cous’. ...a Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation?
...”Economic Growth” like Club of Rome, Club for Growth, and all of that? ...Malthusians. No, thanks. I’ll continue eating a varied diet, getting exercise, keeping clean, and sometimes, even, getting a vaccine.
The NEJM published a study in 2007 (conducted by the University of Minnesota) where vaccination records and hospitalization records for influenza and pneumonia for seniors were studied in three different regions over a ten-year period. They collected data from more than 700,000 person-seasons. The study found that among those vaccinated against the flu, there was a 27% reduction in hospitalization for pneumonia or influenza, and a 48% reduction in death rate.
This reflects the findings of a Japanese study. In Japan, most children were vaccinated against the flu from 1962 through 1987. For more than a decade during that time schoolchildren were even forced to receive flu vaccinations.
The researchers analyzed the monthly rates of death from all causes and death attributed to pneumonia and influenza, as well as census data and statistics on the rates of vaccination for both Japan and the United States from 1949 through 1998. For each winter, they estimated the number of deaths per month in excess of a base-line level, defined as the average death rate in November.
Results: The excess mortality from pneumonia and influenza and that from all causes were highly correlated in each country. In the United States, these rates were nearly constant over time. With the initiation of the vaccination program for schoolchildren in Japan, excess mortality rates dropped from values three to four times those in the United States to values similar to those in the United States. The vaccination of Japanese children prevented about 37,000 to 49,000 deaths per year, or about 1 death for every 420 children vaccinated. As the vaccination of school children was discontinued, the excess mortality rates in Japan increased.
Japan relaxed their vaccination laws in 1987 and repealed them entirely in 1994. I don't know why they did so but their actions resulted in losing what community immunity they had developed and in higher mortality rates.
Vitamin D supplements during the wintertime when skin is covered and shorter daylight hours exist. That’s the thing that can keep your immune system up to its normal level of functioning.