{"id":57681,"date":"2024-10-23T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57681"},"modified":"2024-10-23T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:45:59","slug":"va-data-shows-covid-boosters-increased-risk-of-hospitalization-and-flu-shots-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57681","title":{"rendered":"VA data shows COVID boosters increased risk of hospitalization and flu shots don&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hospital_Patient_On_Bed.jpg\" alt=\"Hospital Patient On Bed\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hospital_Patient_On_Bed.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hospital_Patient_On_Bed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hospital_Patient_On_Bed-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"v1subtitle\">My updated analysis of VA hospitalization data shows your first shot might reduce your risk of hospitalization, the second shot did nothing, and the booster made things worse. Flu shots did nothing.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kirschsubstack.com\/p\/va-data-shows-covid-boosters-increased\">https:\/\/kirschsubstack.com\/p\/va-data-shows-covid-boosters-increased<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My updated analysis of VA hospitalization data shows your first shot might reduce your risk of hospitalization, the second shot did nothing, and the booster made things worse. Flu shots did nothing. https:\/\/kirschsubstack.com\/p\/va-data-shows-covid-boosters-increased<\/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-57681","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\/57681","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=57681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57683,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57681\/revisions\/57683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}