2022-2023 Vaccine Provided Little Protection Against Influenza
2022-2023 Vaccine Provided Little Protection Against Influenza
Despite CDC False Claims, Heavily Promoted Vaccine Failed to Protect Against Severe Outcomes
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Almost like Christmas time for the Influenza vaccine companies, the CDC declared National Influenza Vaccination Week from December 4-8, 2023, a “reminder for everyone 6 months and older that there's still time to get a flu vaccine this season.” Many of my patients ask, does the flu-shot really work? For any therapeutic, we require large prospective, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trials and need to see at least a 20% relative risk reduction in a meaningful outcome such as hospitalization or death. Because the vaccine industry by convention does not do large RCTS for influenza vaccine anticipating the strain formula will change, we are left with non-randomized observational studies, usually written by CDC authors who are vaccine promoters. The calculated vaccine efficacy tends to over-estimate benefit. For my practice, a vaccine would have to give at least 50% protection against a significant outcome such as hospitalization and death to get my recommendation. Does the latest flu-shot make the cut?
Tenforde et al from the CDC published a recent study from the VISION Network.
“This study from the VISION Network included healthcare encounters between 16 October 2022 and 31 March 2023 in 3 large health systems with integrated clinical, laboratory, and vaccination data in 4 states (Kaiser Permanente Northern California [KPNC], Intermountain Healthcare [IH] in Utah, and HealthPartners [HP] in Minnesota and Wisconsin). VISION’s study sites and methods used to evaluate influenza VE have been previously described [2]. In summary, using a test negative case-control study design, among adults =18 years age with an acute respiratory illness (ARI)–associated ED/UC encounter or hospitalization who underwent molecular testing for influenza (eg, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction), we estimated VE by comparing the odds of current season influenza vaccination among those who tested positive for influenza A (case-patients) with those who tested negative for influenza A and B (controls). All influenza testing was clinician-initiated.”
Influenza accounted for 17% of all viral respiratory infections with ~75% usually known to be influenza A and the rest, ~25% influenza B. Only 9.5% of respiratory hospitalizations were due to influenza, but sadly, 52.8% were fully vaccinated for the flu. As you can see the vaccine efficacy for protection against hospitalization was a disappointing 35%. No data are reported on transmission.
The vaccine did not stop the flu or its spread. Thus by using the evidence and not CDC false claims, the influenza vaccine is marginally protective at best against hospitalization and death and no reason to think it will help you protect others. So you can make your own informed choice this year late into the season.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
Robust research from the UK shows that 65 year olds derive no benefit in terms of hospitalisation or death from influenza vaccines. Anderson et al. 2020: https://sci-hub.se/10.7326/M19-3075, discussed at: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce.
The rate of vaccination jumped from 27% at age 64 to 57% at age 66, with no detectable change in steady, upwards, with age, rates of hospitalisation and death for influenza or influenza-like respiratory diseases.
Further research projects along these lines are discussed at: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce-1da.
There would be no need for influenza vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines or quasi-vaccines (mRNA and adenovirus vector) if everyone had the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D which the immune system needs to function properly. However, where would be the profit in that? Please read the research cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, or recent high level ultraviolet B exposure of ideally white skin, most people have half or less than this. Those with dark or brown skin, especially far from the equator, have even lower levels. Their immune systems are crippled for want of supplemental vitamin D3.
The amount of vitamin D3 needed to attain this, without medical monitoring, is specified by New Jersey based Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa, as ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 and https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-how-much.
For 70 kg (154 lb) without obesity, about 0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day, on average suffices. This is a gram every 22 years, and the ex-factory price of pharma grade vitamin D3 is about USD$2.50 a gram.
The mind boggles at the resources and time that have been squandered over years and years on flu vaccines.
In this regard, please see below my email to Anthony Fauci and others:
The biggest crime in history...the influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine scam
https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/the-biggest-crime-in-history.the-influenza-and-sars-cov-2-vaccine-scam.pdf
27 April 2023
David Morens, Jeffery Taubenberger and Anthony Fauci, you admit influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine products are rubbish in your article Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses. Cell Host & Microbe 31, 11 January 2023.
You say: "As of 2022, after more than 60 years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted. As pointed out decades ago, and still true today, the rates of effectiveness of our best approved influenza vaccines would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases."
Really?!?!?! So what is this, just out and out fraud?
And now we've been inflicted with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine racket, products you admit "elicit incomplete and short-lived protection against evolving virus variants that escape population immunity"...but you also say "the rapid development and deployment of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines has saved innumerable lives and helped to achieve early partial pandemic control".
Based upon what evidence do you make that fanciful claim for efficacy?!
How have you gotten away with this utter bullshit for so long?
Because the scientific and medical establishment is captured by the lucrative Church of Vaccination, and incapable of calling out the gross exploitation of mass populations of people with defective and unnecessary products!
How many billions of people, including children, have been misled into having these unnecessary and worse than useless medical interventions?
How many billions of dollars have been squandered on the influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines scam?
And these unnecessary and worse than useless products have been mandated in many instances, mandated medical interventions trashing the legal and ethical obligation for voluntary informed consent. And the medical 'profession' went along with this travesty.
The imposition of these medical interventions, and the resulting medical, economic and social damage, is the biggest crime in history, and it's time for the perpetrators to be brought to account.
Sincerely
Elizabeth Hart
Independent researcher investigating vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy
vaccinationispolitical.net