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 symptom…
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.
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.