Display MoreWe don't need vaccine policemen. Millions of lives saved is a laugher - like to see that data.
Most physicians haven't looked at the vaccine data because they are trained in a couple of lectures in medical school. They really take it on faith.
There are no RCTs. Infrequent but serious immediate harms have to be taken to vaccine court. Long term harms are not ever traced to vaccines.
The CDC has been taken to task by many agencies as being an arm of the Vaccine industry. Did you read those reports - what did you think about that?
As for Covid - getting a flu vaccine will increase the odds of getting Corona-virus infection. See: Assessment of temporally-related acute respiratory illness following
influenza vaccination by Rikin et al. They found a 4.8x in kids < 18.
As for adults, Wolf 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31607599/ shows roughly 30% increased risk for coronavirus.
Quote: "Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus;"
I know Navid that you will address my comment on your CDC SCFR table post shortly.
I have to take you to task again for a slightly careless reading of the Rikin et al paper.
Rikin et al do indeed find that vaccinated children are more likely to suffer ARI than non-vaccinated children.
That is a correlation. It does not, as you assume, imply causation.
Here is another argument for causation.
Children do not all get Flu jab. It is highly likely that those who get it will be those who are more likely (for other reasons) to suffer ARIs. After all, the vaccine protects against Flu ARI.
Thus the findings here do not show what you suppose.
We have gone round this enough with COVID therapy tests - I''d expect you to be familiar with the arguments?
Another point to note is that the figure for Flu in the 14 days post-injection. This does not represent realistic Flu protection because vaccines take some 14 days before immunity is formed. In addition the same issue of those who take the vaccine being those at more risk applies.
As in all other things, obtaining meaningful results from anything except RCTs is very difficult. The antivaxer movement seem to be assiduously ignoring this fact of life.
This particular study, because there is no control for known risk factors (and an expectation that those would be positively correlated with vaccination) has very poor methodology. GIGO.
THH