(Apologies if this appears more than once. The first two times I posted it, with a tick on the Notes option, and nothing happened.)
Research such as this is subject to a variety of confounders which can be hard to eliminate.
A more robust approach, at least for 65 year olds - who are widely regarded as more at risk of hospitalisation and death than younger people - is to survey hospitalisation and death by age, in years, and see how this varies with a strong rise in percentage of the population who take the flu vaccine each year.
Anderson et al. 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine https://sci-hub.se/10.7326/M19-3075 report that in England and Wales, over multiple flu seasons, there was no discernible change in the rate of hospitalisation and death, which rises with each year of age, around age 65 when the proportion of people who accept the flu vaccine rises from 27% to 57%. I discuss this and other research which backs this up in two articles, the first of which is https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce .
This is perfectly good research. The fact that the public - and surely most doctors - are not informed about this while at the same time are being cajoled and encouraged earnestly to accept this vaccine every year, shows that the multi-billion dollar flu vaccine is corrupt.
The flu vaccine is perhaps the least controversial of all vaccines. So why should we trust what the supposed experts tell us about any vaccine, without us first researching the matter assiduously to make sure all their statements accord with the best research?
Neither influenza nor COVID-19 would spread very much at any time of year if everyone had the 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, most people have only 1/10 to 1/2 of this, so their innate and adaptive immune responses to cancer cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses is crippled. Please see all the research linked to and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
This section: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#sjw-updated-ratios provides body-weight ratio amounts of vitamin D3 per day which will attain at least 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L for people of all ages, bodyweights and degrees of obesity. This requires higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These are from Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa's 2021 article in Nutrients:
For 70 kg 154 lb body weight, without obesity, the amount to take, on average, per day is 0.125 milligrams. This is also known as "5000 IU". This is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. ~297 nanometre ultraviolet-B from sunlight or artificial sources can produce quite a lot of vitamin D3 in skin (white - not so much in brown or black skin), but this is not available to most people all year round, and always damages DNA, so raising the risk of skin cancer.
I never got a flu shot until I got a job at the Cleveland Clinic. My boss would yell from her office at those who balked. They had shot stations on carts setup throughout the campus. Once they tried putting holographic stickers on our badges to indicate compliance. It was, from my perspective, horrifying.
Many of my colleagues didn’t like being told they had to take these shots but in 13 years I only knew one person that successfully refused. Ironically enough I actually got the flu despite all the shots. Tested positive for influenza A. Couldn’t remember the time before when I caught the flu it was so long ago. Everyone at CCF just shrugged, it happens, you won’t get as sick, blah-blah-blah.
After I retired I said, thank God nobody can force me to take shots anymore. Little did I know the pandemic was just a few years away. I did not take the covid vaccine. But I did stock up on IVM. So when I finally caught Delta 1-1/2 years ago I survived. Haven’t had so much as a cold since.
Of course, as pointed out by Robin Whittle before me, any observational study is prone to have biases. I am not so worried about confounders, since they did multivariate (Cox) analysis, which should adjust for identified potential confounders. But an important bias (that cannot be erased with statistical analysis) is that non-vaccinated individuals are more likely to be tested for influenza; therefore, the incidences may have been underestimated in the vaccinated. Even so, the estimated efficacy (for infection) was a mere 53% (1-HR), which is very poor, in my opinion. To me, vaccinating people against influenza has never made much sense.
It’s why we need a true free market in healthcare, so we can make informed individual choices. The fluShot got mandated for healthcare workers through Obamacare. Turns out it was a trial balloon for Covid to take our freedoms away
The Covid vaccines are not pharmaceuticals. They were contracted under the EUA and war powers authority with the DOD. They are not vaccines. FLCCC needs to find out the facts. The contracts with the military are in the public domain and readily discoverable on line. Health authorities have no control over these products, that's why they can't stop the rollout. FLCCC needs to discover the facts of what is really in the vials and move on from the current nonproductive line of argument and inquiry.
Over the years most of the people I know who regularly take the flu shot inevitably came down with the flu. What's the point? Profits for Pharma seems to be the only point.
Most things that are believed as fact in the medical world are just that, 'BELIEFS', until you analyse the data and evidence!
Working as a private clinician for over 3 decades, I observed patients 'unvaccinated vs vaccinated', and would have guessed that maybe 30% got a benefit (less symptoms, etc), 40% no difference and 30% worse symptoms...but this was a guess and completely WRONG. When I looked into the data, I found almost NIL clinical benefit...another 'sacred cow' of medicine that was all 'smoke and mirrors'. 3 large Cochrane Reviews completed the past 2 decades, all show the same lack of efficacy, with the most recent 2018 analysis below:
"...review in 2018 that included 52 clinical trials of over 80,000 people assessing the safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines...presented findings from 25 studies comparing inactivated parenteral influenza vaccine against placebo or do-nothing control groups as the most relevant to
decision-making. The studies were conducted over single influenza seasons in North America, South America, and Europe between 1969 and 2009..."
"...Inactivated influenza vaccines probably reduce influenza in healthy adults from 2.3% without vaccination to 0.9% (risk ratio (RR) 0.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.36 to 0.47; 71,221 participants; moderate-certainty evidence), and they probably reduce ILI from 21.5% to 18.1%
(RR 0.84, 95% CI 0.75 to 0.95; 25,795 participants; moderate-certainty evidence..."
"...vaccination may lead to a small reduction in the risk of hospitalisation in healthy adults, from 14.7% to 14.1%..."
"...Healthy adults who receive inactivated parenteral influenza vaccine rather than no vaccine probably experience less influenza, from just over 2% to just under 1% (moderate-certainty evidence)...".
Also given:".... Fifteen included RCTs were industry funded (29%)..." the results may even be much worse.
As for over 65yr olds the data is not much better.
"...Older adults receiving the influenza vaccine may have a lower risk of influenza (from 6% to 2.4%), and probably have a lower risk of ILI compared with those who do not receive a vaccination over the course of a single influenza season (from 6% to 3.5%)..."
Conclusion: Another money laundering operation from Big Pharma.
200 bucks for 30 capsules. That's highway robbery. Yeah, the profiteers of suffering are crawling out of the woodwork. India's where I get my stockpiles of Ivermectin. Save them because they may not have much post-injection therapeutic benefit( at least not for me) but when the DOD rolls out another virus they will be there for you.
(Apologies if this appears more than once. The first two times I posted it, with a tick on the Notes option, and nothing happened.)
Research such as this is subject to a variety of confounders which can be hard to eliminate.
A more robust approach, at least for 65 year olds - who are widely regarded as more at risk of hospitalisation and death than younger people - is to survey hospitalisation and death by age, in years, and see how this varies with a strong rise in percentage of the population who take the flu vaccine each year.
Anderson et al. 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine https://sci-hub.se/10.7326/M19-3075 report that in England and Wales, over multiple flu seasons, there was no discernible change in the rate of hospitalisation and death, which rises with each year of age, around age 65 when the proportion of people who accept the flu vaccine rises from 27% to 57%. I discuss this and other research which backs this up in two articles, the first of which is https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce .
This is perfectly good research. The fact that the public - and surely most doctors - are not informed about this while at the same time are being cajoled and encouraged earnestly to accept this vaccine every year, shows that the multi-billion dollar flu vaccine is corrupt.
The flu vaccine is perhaps the least controversial of all vaccines. So why should we trust what the supposed experts tell us about any vaccine, without us first researching the matter assiduously to make sure all their statements accord with the best research?
Neither influenza nor COVID-19 would spread very much at any time of year if everyone had the 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, most people have only 1/10 to 1/2 of this, so their innate and adaptive immune responses to cancer cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses is crippled. Please see all the research linked to and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
This section: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#sjw-updated-ratios provides body-weight ratio amounts of vitamin D3 per day which will attain at least 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L for people of all ages, bodyweights and degrees of obesity. This requires higher ratios for those suffering from obesity. These are from Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa's 2021 article in Nutrients:
"Rapidly Increasing Serum 25(OH)D Boosts the Immune System, against Infections - Sepsis and COVID-19": https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997 .
For 70 kg 154 lb body weight, without obesity, the amount to take, on average, per day is 0.125 milligrams. This is also known as "5000 IU". This is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. ~297 nanometre ultraviolet-B from sunlight or artificial sources can produce quite a lot of vitamin D3 in skin (white - not so much in brown or black skin), but this is not available to most people all year round, and always damages DNA, so raising the risk of skin cancer.
I never got a flu shot until I got a job at the Cleveland Clinic. My boss would yell from her office at those who balked. They had shot stations on carts setup throughout the campus. Once they tried putting holographic stickers on our badges to indicate compliance. It was, from my perspective, horrifying.
Many of my colleagues didn’t like being told they had to take these shots but in 13 years I only knew one person that successfully refused. Ironically enough I actually got the flu despite all the shots. Tested positive for influenza A. Couldn’t remember the time before when I caught the flu it was so long ago. Everyone at CCF just shrugged, it happens, you won’t get as sick, blah-blah-blah.
After I retired I said, thank God nobody can force me to take shots anymore. Little did I know the pandemic was just a few years away. I did not take the covid vaccine. But I did stock up on IVM. So when I finally caught Delta 1-1/2 years ago I survived. Haven’t had so much as a cold since.
Of course, as pointed out by Robin Whittle before me, any observational study is prone to have biases. I am not so worried about confounders, since they did multivariate (Cox) analysis, which should adjust for identified potential confounders. But an important bias (that cannot be erased with statistical analysis) is that non-vaccinated individuals are more likely to be tested for influenza; therefore, the incidences may have been underestimated in the vaccinated. Even so, the estimated efficacy (for infection) was a mere 53% (1-HR), which is very poor, in my opinion. To me, vaccinating people against influenza has never made much sense.
It’s why we need a true free market in healthcare, so we can make informed individual choices. The fluShot got mandated for healthcare workers through Obamacare. Turns out it was a trial balloon for Covid to take our freedoms away
The Covid vaccines are not pharmaceuticals. They were contracted under the EUA and war powers authority with the DOD. They are not vaccines. FLCCC needs to find out the facts. The contracts with the military are in the public domain and readily discoverable on line. Health authorities have no control over these products, that's why they can't stop the rollout. FLCCC needs to discover the facts of what is really in the vials and move on from the current nonproductive line of argument and inquiry.
Just more money making for big pharma!
I've never taken the flu shot, and never will.
Over the years most of the people I know who regularly take the flu shot inevitably came down with the flu. What's the point? Profits for Pharma seems to be the only point.
Most things that are believed as fact in the medical world are just that, 'BELIEFS', until you analyse the data and evidence!
Working as a private clinician for over 3 decades, I observed patients 'unvaccinated vs vaccinated', and would have guessed that maybe 30% got a benefit (less symptoms, etc), 40% no difference and 30% worse symptoms...but this was a guess and completely WRONG. When I looked into the data, I found almost NIL clinical benefit...another 'sacred cow' of medicine that was all 'smoke and mirrors'. 3 large Cochrane Reviews completed the past 2 decades, all show the same lack of efficacy, with the most recent 2018 analysis below:
https://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-prevent-influenza-healthy-adults
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub6/pdf/CDSR/CD001269/CD001269_abstract.pdf
"...review in 2018 that included 52 clinical trials of over 80,000 people assessing the safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines...presented findings from 25 studies comparing inactivated parenteral influenza vaccine against placebo or do-nothing control groups as the most relevant to
decision-making. The studies were conducted over single influenza seasons in North America, South America, and Europe between 1969 and 2009..."
"...Inactivated influenza vaccines probably reduce influenza in healthy adults from 2.3% without vaccination to 0.9% (risk ratio (RR) 0.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.36 to 0.47; 71,221 participants; moderate-certainty evidence), and they probably reduce ILI from 21.5% to 18.1%
(RR 0.84, 95% CI 0.75 to 0.95; 25,795 participants; moderate-certainty evidence..."
"...vaccination may lead to a small reduction in the risk of hospitalisation in healthy adults, from 14.7% to 14.1%..."
"...Healthy adults who receive inactivated parenteral influenza vaccine rather than no vaccine probably experience less influenza, from just over 2% to just under 1% (moderate-certainty evidence)...".
Also given:".... Fifteen included RCTs were industry funded (29%)..." the results may even be much worse.
As for over 65yr olds the data is not much better.
See: https://www.cochrane.org/CD004876/ARI_vaccines-preventing-seasonal-influenza-and-its-complications-people-aged-65-or-older
"...Older adults receiving the influenza vaccine may have a lower risk of influenza (from 6% to 2.4%), and probably have a lower risk of ILI compared with those who do not receive a vaccination over the course of a single influenza season (from 6% to 3.5%)..."
Conclusion: Another money laundering operation from Big Pharma.
200 bucks for 30 capsules. That's highway robbery. Yeah, the profiteers of suffering are crawling out of the woodwork. India's where I get my stockpiles of Ivermectin. Save them because they may not have much post-injection therapeutic benefit( at least not for me) but when the DOD rolls out another virus they will be there for you.