{"id":26927,"date":"2020-03-24T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26927"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:00:24","slug":"the-flu-shot-increases-by-36-the-risk-of-having-the-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26927","title":{"rendered":"The flu shot increases by 36% the risk of having the COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-and-flu.jpg\" alt=\"coronavirus and flu\" class=\"wp-image-26928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-and-flu.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-and-flu-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom: You may have seen the advice to get the flu shot. That is from ignorant people.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Serge: The medical community strongly advises the population to get a flu shot to help combat the epidemic of this coronavirus. Honestly, I never made any sense to me. It is two different types of viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concerningly, the latest research shows that getting the flu vaccine increases the risk of getting the coronavirus by 36%!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paraphrasing, the study highlights the value of the human body\u2019s ability to fight against viruses. Apparently, by contracting influenza, the body naturally \u201cmay reduce the risk of non-influenza respiratory viruses\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile influenza vaccination offers protection against influenza, natural influenza infection may reduce the risk of non-influenza respiratory viruses by providing temporary, non-specific immunity against these viruses. On the other hand, recently published studies have described the phenomenon of vaccine-associated virus interference; that is, vaccinated individuals may be at increased risk for other respiratory viruses because they do not receive the non-specific immunity associated with natural infection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I blogged about before, the flu shot is known to actually suppress your immune system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-dr-serge\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.drsergegregoire.com\/conventional-medicine\/the-flu-shot-increases-by-36-the-risk-of-having-the-covid-19\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: You may have seen the advice to get the flu shot. That is from ignorant people.) Dr Serge: The medical community strongly advises the population to get a flu shot to help combat the epidemic of this coronavirus. Honestly, I never made any sense to me. It is two different types of viruses. Concerningly, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The flu shot increases by 36% the risk of having the COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26927","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\/26927","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=26927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27050,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927\/revisions\/27050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}