{"id":59406,"date":"2025-04-27T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=59406"},"modified":"2025-04-27T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:01:07","slug":"people-who-received-a-flu-shot-this-winter-were-more-likely-to-get-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59406","title":{"rendered":"People who received a flu shot this winter were MORE likely to get the flu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Flu<\/p>\n

This research is only the latest to suggest that flu shots simply do not work \u2014 and that any observational studies that seem to show their effectiveness are fatally flawed by what researchers called healthy vaccinee bias. (People who are vaccinated are historically healthier, more health-conscious, and more fearful of contagious illness and thus more likely to avoid situations where they might become infected than those who are not.)<\/p>\n

Nationwide data is equally troubling.<\/p>\n

As I reported in 2022<\/a>, the number of flu shots has risen almost 15-fold in the United States since 1980, yet flu deaths have only increased. The Centers for Disease Control now says this year\u2019s flu season might have been the deadliest in decades, with\u00a0up to 130,000 deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The media has been loathe to report that ugly number, since doing so might raise questions about both the effectiveness of flu jabs and whether Covid mRNA shots may have somehow damaged the immune systems of people who received them. At best, though, that figure suggests nothing we\u2019re doing about the flu is working.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/urgent-people-who-received-a-flu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This research is only the latest to suggest that flu shots simply do not work \u2014 and that any observational studies that seem to show their effectiveness are fatally flawed by what researchers called healthy vaccinee bias. (People who are vaccinated are historically healthier, more health-conscious, and more fearful of contagious illness and thus more … <\/p>\n

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