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Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’
NY Post ^ | 09/22/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 09/22/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned Wednesday that “we’re in for a whopper” of a flu season due to a lack of immunity in the US population.

Gottlieb, who helmed the FDA under President Donald Trump and serves on Pfizer’s board of directors, made the chilling prediction during an interview on CNBC about workplace safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“We haven’t seen a flu season last year — we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years. When the flu does come back, and it will come back, it’s going to come back very aggressively,” he said.

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KEYWORDS: extracheese; flu; fluseason; flushot; holdthepickles; predicts; season; whopper
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To: Bell Bouy II

Does Pfizer make flu shots too? I bet they’re working on a combo flu/covid shot as we speak(type)


41 posted on 09/22/2021 10:24:09 AM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I said no to my flu vaccine yesterday at dr appointment. Can’t trust our health system anymore.


42 posted on 09/22/2021 10:26:16 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: rktman
"Flu bug to redouble assault on the flu vax hesitant."

Sure it will...... I personally have had only one flu vaccine shot and that was 20 years ago. I did not enjoy the experience so that was the last one. I rarely get the flu and when I do it is usually not nearly as bad as what other people suffer.

I recently found out at 23andme that I have a set of genes associated with higher resistance the flu so I really do not need the vaccine - thank you very much.

Stop living in fear.

43 posted on 09/22/2021 10:26:33 AM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: delta7
-- But hey, sell the fear. --

Bring back the doomseday clock! I know it's still running, but off the radar. 10 more years to death by global warming.

44 posted on 09/22/2021 10:28:50 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: WMarshal

We also. We considered it one and done many years ago. The VA keeps asking me if I would like one and they get denied.


45 posted on 09/22/2021 10:31:13 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTW ...

Gotlieb pushed — and introduced — Trump to Hydroxychloroquine and other theraputics for early treatment with no vaccines.

Unlike the Trump haters thought, Trump was not making HCQ in his food processor.


46 posted on 09/22/2021 10:37:45 AM PDT by ManardG
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right on time to force acceptance of a combined ChynaCough/Flu shot


47 posted on 09/22/2021 10:37:51 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: ViLaLuz

Regardless of whatever BS lies they spread about the flu and everything they say will be a lie, the paranoid police state tactics they employ do affect the transmission rates of the regular flu. This real benefit is very tiny compared to the cost to achieve it but it is there.


48 posted on 09/22/2021 10:39:10 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I was looking for a comment like yours and agree. The awakening of the spike protein.


49 posted on 09/22/2021 10:56:23 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’ll be a whopper if they’ll use a test that can detect it. Until then, everyone will have Covid again.


50 posted on 09/22/2021 11:05:05 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: agatheringstorm

How’s the Oz economy doing?

I know NZ’s tourism is doing wonderfully...


51 posted on 09/22/2021 11:14:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: agatheringstorm

Oz was locked down.

We are open in many areas.


52 posted on 09/22/2021 11:20:17 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LOL. These idiots are so good at predicting the types of flu that will be circulating that they have only a 30% chance of having the major strains circulating in a given year covered by that year’s flu shot. Sometimes they completely miss the boat.
This guy should breathe into a paper bag and stop pretending he is credible.


53 posted on 09/22/2021 11:20:41 AM PDT by JayGalt (The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.)
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To: Pollard

Read something last week or so some one was.
Time to abandon Flu shots


54 posted on 09/22/2021 11:26:32 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: JayGalt

Flu shots when combined with Covid shots and Covid boosters make you immortal.

Science, yo!


55 posted on 09/22/2021 11:27:39 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anyone explain this one? In the first wave, which was in late winter, we were told viruses didn’t like hot weather and sure enough when summer came things settled down. This time it’s all happening at the hottest time of the year. This version likes heat? It’s going to be even worst when winter comes?


56 posted on 09/22/2021 12:04:28 PM PDT by CA_soon_gone
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To: G Larry

” the flu will be the same as last year”

You are likely correct. The difference is all those poor schlubs who took a covid 19 jab and now have a compromised immune system. The government is counting on it.


57 posted on 09/22/2021 12:50:35 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

no flu because people wearing mask, they said. Another way to say, GET MASKED FROM NOW ON! One way or another we will keeeeeeeeeel you and your economy!


58 posted on 09/22/2021 12:56:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now that a majority have destroyed thier immune system with the DNA Spike Jab, the Flu will kill Millions!


59 posted on 09/22/2021 1:15:29 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BkMk


60 posted on 09/22/2021 1:47:42 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my great grandchildren.)
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