{"id":63397,"date":"2026-02-12T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63397"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:54:14","slug":"large-study-shows-flu-shot-increases-the-risk-of-influenza-by-27-yet-46-of-americans-still-go-and-get-their-flu-shot-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63397","title":{"rendered":"Large Study Shows Flu Shot Increases The Risk Of Influenza By 27% &#8211; Yet 46% of Americans Still Go And Get Their Flu Shot A Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 31, 2026, approximately 46.0% of adults and 46.4% of children aged 6 months to 17 years reported having received a flu vaccination during the 2025-2026 season, showing a slight increase compared to the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>A large Cleveland Clinic Study the year prior showed that the Flu Shot INCREASED THE RISK OF GETTING THE FLU BY 27%.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/anamihalceamdphd\/p\/large-study-shows-flu-shot-increases\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/anamihalceamdphd\/p\/large-study-shows-flu-shot-increases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 31, 2026, approximately 46.0% of adults and 46.4% of children aged 6 months to 17 years reported having received a flu vaccination during the 2025-2026 season, showing a slight increase compared to the previous season. A large Cleveland Clinic Study the year prior showed that the Flu Shot INCREASED THE RISK OF &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large Study Shows Flu Shot Increases The Risk Of Influenza By 27% &#8211; Yet 46% of Americans Still Go And Get Their Flu Shot A Year Later&#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-63397","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\/63397","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=63397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63398,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63397\/revisions\/63398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}