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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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Wait wait, I thought there was zero flu in 2020 because of masking.... Or is he trying to say lockdowns killed our immunity?
1 posted on 09/22/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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The mRNA jabs have seriously destroyed millions of people’s immunity.


2 posted on 09/22/2021 9:29:21 AM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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Flu bug to redouble assault on the flu vax hesitant.


3 posted on 09/22/2021 9:29:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Maybe because flu and colds were/are counted as covid?


4 posted on 09/22/2021 9:29:58 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

News flash.

Every flu season is a whopper.

But hey, sell the fear.


5 posted on 09/22/2021 9:30:47 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

After you kill their immune systems of course it is going to be a bad cold and flu season.


6 posted on 09/22/2021 9:31:28 AM PDT by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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So instead of having 1297 cases of flu we might have 1500 or more? Instead of the usual 30,000 cases?

Who believes these idiots?


7 posted on 09/22/2021 9:31:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years.

No shot Sherlick. All the smart Freepers were saying last summer that the lockdowns were a mistake that would prevent immunity from all the other diseases that still exist besides WuFlu.

8 posted on 09/22/2021 9:32:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Unpossible! The flu magically dissappeared when covid came around! /s


9 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:00 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

COVID-22: The Electric Boogaloo


10 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:09 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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Several of you beat me to it, but on FR I’m not surprised! Thanks to the lockdowns, masks and vaccines, many folks have had their immune systems weakened.


11 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:10 AM PDT by AnglePark
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> serves on Pfizer’s board of directors <

He might be right about the flu. Who know? But he sure ain’t a neutral observer.


12 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:37 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Who believes these idiots?

Plenty of people here on FR, it would appear. Unfortunately.

13 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:55 AM PDT by DSH
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How does the govt “put immunity” into the society? Sounds insane. Govt has nothing to do with it.


14 posted on 09/22/2021 9:33:56 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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serves on Pfizer’s board of directors,

Oh,OK


15 posted on 09/22/2021 9:34:23 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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And every case of flu will be officially tagged as Covid.


16 posted on 09/22/2021 9:34:38 AM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an Empire of lies.)
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But hey, sell the fear.
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Correct , no one can predict the future….these “ scientists “ have been wrong on everything Covid, why would these imbeciles be right about the flu?


17 posted on 09/22/2021 9:35:17 AM PDT by delta7
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Oh, that’s right, all the common Flu cases were counted as COVID last year. That’s why there was officially only about 1780 Flu cases in the ENTIRE US last year.


18 posted on 09/22/2021 9:35:33 AM PDT by oil_dude
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Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’

Then we'll have to use two hands.

19 posted on 09/22/2021 9:37:45 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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Flu activity was unusually low throughout the 2020-2021 flu season both in the United States and globally, despite high levels of testing. During September 28, 2020–May 22, 2021 in the United States, 1,675 (0.2%) of 818,939 respiratory specimens tested by U.S. clinical laboratories were positive for an influenza virus.


Because EVERYONE else had The ‘Rona, don’t ya know. I would like someone to interview Gottlieb and ask him to explain how they determine which flu vaccine to give each year. The way it was explained to me is that is just a big guess. Guys like Fauci get together and make a guess as to which version of the flu will be most prevalent and then they tailor the vaccine to that.

They get it right, flu season mild. They get it wrong, flu season bad.


20 posted on 09/22/2021 9:38:09 AM PDT by qaz123
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