{"id":16948,"date":"2017-09-04T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16948"},"modified":"2024-06-30T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:21:55","slug":"govt-researchers-flu-shots-not-effective-in-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16948","title":{"rendered":"Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VaccinePusher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16949\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VaccinePusher-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vaccine Pusher\" width=\"758\" height=\"895\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAn important and definitive \u201cmainstream\u201d government study done nearly a decade ago got little attention because the science came down on the wrong side. It found that after decades and billions of dollars spent promoting flu shots for the elderly, the mass vaccination program did not result in saving lives. In fact, the death rate among the elderly increased substantially.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/govt-researchers-flu-shots-not-effective-in-elderly-after-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/govt-researchers-flu-shots-not-effective-in-elderly-after-all\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important and definitive \u201cmainstream\u201d government study done nearly a decade ago got little attention because the science came down on the wrong side. It found that after decades and billions of dollars spent promoting flu shots for the elderly, the mass vaccination program did not result in saving lives. In fact, the death rate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51882,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16948\/revisions\/51882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}