Posted on 01/02/2022 7:24:00 PM PST by DoodleBob
Abstract
Background: There is a recognized need to determine influenza vaccine effectiveness on an annual basis and a long history of studying respiratory illnesses in households.
Methods: We recruited 328 households with 1441 members, including 839 children, and followed them during the 2010-2011 influenza season. Specimens were collected from subjects with reported acute respiratory illnesses and tested by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Receipt of influenza vaccine was defined based on documented evidence of vaccination in medical records or an immunization registry. The effectiveness of 2010-2011 influenza vaccination in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza was estimated using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age and presence of high-risk condition, and stratified by prior season (2009-2010) vaccination status.
Results: Influenza was identified in 78 (24%) households and 125 (9%) individuals; the infection risk was 8.5% in the vaccinated and 8.9% in the unvaccinated (P = .83). Adjusted vaccine effectiveness in preventing community-acquired influenza was 31% (95% confidence interval [CI], -7% to 55%). In vaccinated subjects with no evidence of prior season vaccination, significant protection (62% [95% CI, 17%-82%]) against community-acquired influenza was demonstrated. Substantially lower effectiveness was noted among subjects who were vaccinated in both the current and prior season. There was no evidence that vaccination prevented household transmission once influenza was introduced; adults were at particular risk despite vaccination.
Conclusions: Vaccine effectiveness estimates were lower than those demonstrated in other observational studies carried out during the same season. The unexpected findings of lower effectiveness with repeated vaccination and no protection given household exposure require further study.
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As stated in an accompanying editorial,
Remarkably, the rate of... influenza illness was not substantially different between those subjects who received influenza vaccine and those who did not.... The second surprising finding is that receipt of influenza vaccination in a previous season may have impacted the effectiveness of the vaccine in the current season. The population under study was predominantly young healthy adults and children with a low frequency of chronic health conditions, the types of subjects that typically mount the best immune responses to vaccine... the apparent failure of influenza vaccine under optimal conditions seen in this study is indeed troubling.
Perhaps this offers some insight into the longer-term help (or not) of successive COVID19 boosters.
For your consideration.
I’m starting to think that the “experts” don’t know jack #### and are just in it for the government grants.
It’s a virus with a 99 percent-plus survival rate.
Like a whole lot of other viruses.
There has never been any reason for ANY of this drama and hysteria.
Except $$$ for those in the inner circles, who are playing the world’s hypochondriacs and Karens for everything they’re worth.
The original goal was getting rid of The Orange Man.
There has never been any reason for ANY of this drama and hysteria.
I do..........................
BTTT.
EXACTLY.
Right after Nancy got done tearing up the State of the Union, she called her pals in the NIH and CDC, and the other apparatchiks she’s owned lock stock and barrel for decades and barked, “How do we get rid of this horrible man? Any ideas?”
Once she also gave her bought-and-paid-for media their mission, the die was cast.
Ha ha! Yep! We’re 22 years past the predicted horror of “Y2K.”
Happy New Year!
So, like recreational injectibles? The more you use the more it takes to achieve the desired results? And some places are pushing for shot #4. WAKE UP DAMNIT!.
😨😷🐂💨💩💸
Thank you. That was very interesting.
Very interesting study.
Oh, it gets BETTER.
A follow up sort of study covering FIVE years showed declining protection against influenza with increased yearly immunization.
AND, the VE is below 50%, which was the FDA's minimum threshold for COVID19 vaccine consideration.
Now, influenza isn't this bug. BUT, as stated in mewzilla's linked article...
Despite multiple reinfections across the whole population, we are never quite immune to the flu, because its strategy is to exploit the way our immune systems learn.
We are seeing this in real-time now.
I probably wouldn't be so peeved if the same dopes who yell at me that I must "trust the science" are now ignoring actual scientific research like this, and are pushing boosters based on a hope and some theoretical modeling.
But, as Grampa Dave taught us, this isn't about health...
Yes, interesting.
They lie to us all of the time, for many years.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, we don’t get those either. Or pneumonia shots.
Just remember - the same people lecturing us to “trust the science” are the same ones that tell us there’s more than 2 genders.
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