Influenza and flu vaccines shenanigans
How do we justify the continued push for universal flu shots when the harm outweighs the good? Yet, the pharmaceutical industry, with its allies in public health, present flu as a major cause of death in the U.S. and elsewhere, and push flu shots as if they have saved many lives. Even though it's becoming more clear each year that these shots are the reason for a higher death toll within the elderly population. These information may help put things in perspective.
FLU SHOTS FOR DUMMIES: As mainstream media pushes “Twin-demic” panic, claiming the only answer is the flu shot, Dr. Jim Meehan, MD, sits down with Del to thoroughly look at science behind the flu shot’s effectiveness and safety, providing everything you need to know to make an informed decision on whether to inject yourself and your kids this fall.
South Korean government to investigate spate of deaths linked to seasonal flu shots after toll rises to 30 (Oct. 2020)
Summarised by AHRP (2019):
Influenza is a disease that affects from 3-20% of the population yearly. There were 6515 reported influenza deaths in the US in 2017, during the decade’s worst outbreak. CDC uses mathematical models to estimate influenza deaths, and the estimates include deaths from other heart and lung conditions, in people who had influenza. These estimates usually range from 30-50,000 deaths yearly, related to influenza. Ninety percent of influenza deaths occur in those over age 65. While most people over 65 receive annual flu vaccines in the US, this age group is less likely to develop immunity from the vaccine, compared to younger people. Overall, flu vaccine effectiveness averages about 40%, according to the CDC.
Each year, influenza vaccines are newly made to contain the dominant strains predicted for that season. Because of the need to make different products each year, and make them rapidly available for each flu season, they are not tested to the same extent as other vaccines. Clinical trials to test for safety are not required for yearly changes to flu vaccines. Effectiveness trials are impossible to do prior to mass use. Yearly flu vaccines are “grandfathered in,” although they are checked for manufacturing defects.
The response of elders to flu vaccines is particularly poor. Two strategies are being tried to enhance vaccine immunity in this age group. The first involves using higher concentrations of antigens in the vaccines. The second involves using novel adjuvants, which are substances that provide increased stimulation to the immune system. Potentially this can improve immunity, but it might increase inflammation and autoimmune illnesses.
FLU SHOT WEAKENING OUR MOST VULNERABLE? — As mainstream pushes flu shots more than ever, a new study, compiling data from 39 countries, has found a positive association between COVID-19 deaths and influenza vaccination rates in elderly people worldwide.
Exclusive interview with Dr. Mariano Amici on the reasons that led him to appeal to the TAR against ordinance no. Z00030 by the President of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, who made the flu vaccination mandatory for those over 65 and for all health personnel:
“Science, researchers and academics say that in order not to die, we need to get vaccinated. I absolutely disagree. Because by vaccinating with vaccines for very mutable viruses we create two problems: we risk putting back the virus of the previous season, and the virus of the following season attacks the organism just vaccinated for the old one in a much more serious way and with many more complications. Statistics say that flu kills many more people every year than the Coronavirus did/will and there will be a reason. Why don't we worry about this?"
"They say that the unvaccinated are dangerous for the vaccinated. THIS IS A LIE. It is exactly the opposite. The unvaccinated, I'm not the one who will infect the vaccinated person. Those who were vaccinated will infect me for the two reasons I mentioned earlier: They were vaccinated with a virus that will come to life and transmit it to me, thus infecting me with last year's flu. And those vaccinated will get the virus this year, which is much more aggressive and will expose me to this virus. The vaccinated person is the one who has been infected, not me who was not vaccinated. Unvaccinated people are exposed to the diseases of the vaccinated people!
And now should one undergo mandatory vaccination? Why? Why should I, who am healthy, be exposed to a disease?"
The flu vaccine increases the risk of coronavirus by 36 % says a military study
Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19: A study published in Science shows that influenza vaccination caused antibodies to interferon which is the main defense against viruses. Hmmm... most of the deaths from COVID-19 were the elderly population vaccinated against influenza…
Umrli od COVID-19 so bili stari in bolni ljudje, cepljeni proti gripi: Umrli od korone so stari in bolni ljudje, ki so leta dolgo bili cepljeni proti gripi
Old Lives Matter by Dr Vernon Coleman (video)
National Health Freedom Actions summarised (2020):
Flu shots have caused more bad reactions than all other vaccines combined according to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: “Seven out of ten petitions filed between 2016 and 2017 to the NVICP were related to damages following influenza vaccine to adults or children.”
Flu shots only prevent actual influenza A or B infections, and their effectiveness varies from 10-60% and in most years recently are under 50% effective and often under 30% effective.
The Effect of Influenza Vaccination for the Elderly on Hospitalization and Mortality: An Observational Study With a Regression Discontinuity Design (3/3-20): »No evidence indicated that vaccination reduced hospitalizations or mortality among elderly persons.»
Flu vaccination does not reduce hospitalizations, death in older adults (3/3-20): Influenza vaccination strategies targeting older adults may not be as effective as previously thought, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found increased vaccination rates did not reduce hospitalizations or mortalities among adults aged 65 years and older.
How Effective is Influenza Vaccine?: Officially? Not really. Unofficially? Not at all.
The CDC reported that in the 2018-19 flu season: “Among adults hospitalized for the flu, the vaccine’s effectiveness against the H3N2 strain was reported at -43 percent.” This indicates that those who got their flu shot were more likely to be hospitalized for flu than those who did not get the vaccine!
Over 80% of influenza-like illness – what people generally call “the flu” – are NOT type A or B influenza. They are viral or bacterial flu-like illnesses that are not covered by influenza vaccines.
This Year's Flu Shot May Not Be as Effective Against One Common Strain—Here's What That Means (Jan. 2020): One of the best ways to prevent the flu from sidelining you this season is to get the flu shot—that's why you already got yours way back in October, which means you should be pretty much covered this year, right? If only.
Influenza — Educational Video and more info on Influenza (Flu)
10/10-19: A study published in PubMed states that flu vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as viral interference. Interference of the vaccine derived virus was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus.
Trends in Pneumonia and Influenza Morbidity and Mortality (2015): According to the American Lung Association:
Flu-caused deaths, as recorded on death certificates over a 13-year period, range between a mere 257-1812 deaths per year in the entire U.S.!
CDC lumps the pneumonia deaths together with flu deaths, but most pneumonia deaths are unrelated to influenza and therefore could not be prevented or lessened by a flu shot – even if they worked!
Universal flu shots violate science and common sense given their high risk to benefit ratio and fact that “Only about 3 percent of pneumonia and influenza deaths occurred in those under age 45.”
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests (2009): “…children who had received the flu vaccine [trivalent inactivated flu vaccine—TIV] had three times the risk of hospitalization, as compared to children who had not received the vaccine. In asthmatic children, there was a significantly higher risk of hospitalization [all emphasis mine] in subjects who received the TIV, as compared to those who did not…” This makes the emphasis for asthmatics to take flu shots particularly alarming.
Can You Catch the Flu? Spanish Flu and the Infectious Myth (8/1-21): “Can you "catch" the flu from someone? Under the aegis of the Infectious Myth, it is a banal truism of modern culture (and medicine) that you can. However, modern culture is anything BUT fallible and, in fact, nurtures many different acceptable - even politically correct - illusions. What if intimate experiments designed to supposedly guarantee transmission from flu patients to healthy people failed - but no one knew? The ramifications of this kind of data are paradigm-shaking and far-reaching. Everyone knows of the "Spanish Flu", but few people dig beneath the superficial pseudo-history to get to the roots of the legend. What did it have to do with Spanish people, if anything? Were all cases of "flu" really the flu? Could some - or many - have been OTHER conditions misclassified as influenza, just as 2020 has seen many deaths and illnesses falsely attributed to the unproved SARS-CoV-2 "virus" and "covid-19"? This episode reveals the truth about flu - and the so-called Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, including the true causes, the fraud, the iatrogenic contribution, and more.
You'll hear about:
How important experiments from 1918 utterly failed to prove the infectiousness of "flu"
The various different factors that create flu symptoms
Why the idea of a "virus" does not need to be invoked to understand "influenza"
Tactics of deception and obfuscation used for covid-19 were also used to inflate Spanish Flu numbers
The role of mass vaccination in the Spanish Flu "outbreak"
Why the infectious model increasingly fails to explain disease
The role of toxic exposure in flu and other diseases like polio previously thought "infectious"
... and much, much more.
Your view of influenza and the common cold will never be the same again.
Flu shot injury compensations:
OVER $1 BILLION IN FLU SHOT INJURIES: Wayne Rohde, investigative researcher & author of “The Vaccine Court,” joins Del to discuss how the flu shot fares in vaccine injury court. The flu shot has now passed over one billion dollars in pay outs in court for serious injuries, including paralysis.
Flu Shot Injury Compensation: The influenza vaccine’s risk/benefit ratio is high – vaccinating can cause very serious conditions, including neurological harm, autoimmune disease, and death.
If the resulting injury lasts more than 6 months or results in surgical intervention during inpatient hospitalization or death, you may be eligible to petition for compensation through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVCP).
According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 37.71% of the 5,353 compensated petitions from 1988 to 2017 were a result of complications with the influenza vaccine. Of the 3,404 influenza petitions processed during the same time period, 59.31% of petitioners were compensated.
Flu shot injuries continued to increase in the past year, with 72.44% of the 1,753 petitions filed in the NVICP between 2016 and 2017, resulting from complications with the influenza vaccine.
Fluad vaccine:
The Fluad vaccine is the only influenza vaccine in Canada and the US to contain a novel, immune-boosting adjuvant. The adjuvant is called MF59 C1. Originally produced by an Italian company, the adjuvant-containing flu vaccine was licensed for elders only, in Italy, in 1997. It was not licensed in the US until 2015, for elders only, presumably because they were less likely to experience complications from the vaccine’s additional immune stimulation. I have been unable to find unbiased literature on the MF59 adjuvant or the Fluad vaccine, as all the research has been sponsored by its manufacturers (Sclavo, then Chiron, then Novartis, and now Sequirus).
Fluad was licensed for elders in Canada in 2011. The government of Ontario’s fact sheet on the vaccine makes clear that by 2016 it was still not known whether the excess immune stimulation it provides actually improved protection against the flu:
“How well does the Fluad® vaccine protect against influenza? Influenza vaccines may decrease hospitalizations and deaths among elderly individuals. According to the product monograph, Fluad® produces a higher immune response in elderly individuals when compared to other influenza vaccines without an adjuvant. The higher immune response may indicate that Fluad® works better than unadjuvanted vaccines, although this is not known for certain.”
Nor is it known how safe the adjuvanted vaccine is. It causes about 15% more local reactions than nonadjuvanted flu vaccines, but we don’t know if it causes more serious, or later onset, adverse reactions.
FluWatch reports that 10 Canadian children died from flu last season, 8 aged 2-4 years old. Nine children died the prior season. Canada and the US recommend yearly flu vaccines for all eligible children aged over 6 months, while most of Europe does not recommend flu vaccine for healthy children. Very young children generate a poor immune response to current influenza vaccines. But few die from the disease.
Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunizations reviewed the literature on the use of the Fluad, MF59-adjuvanted vaccines in infants and young children in 2015. From their report’s Executive Summary:
“Severe reactions are rare, but several of the reviewed studies were too small to detect clinically significant but rare adverse events. In particular, the safety information is limited for ATIV (adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccines) in children with immunodeficiencies and other chronic illnesses…
There are insufficient data to assess whether ATIV (adjuvanted flu vaccine) is more effective than UTIV (unadjuvanted flu vaccine) or LAIV (live attenuated flu vaccine) in practice or to make an informed risk-benefit analysis.”
The reviewers also noted that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) failed to license the vaccine for European children in 2012. The EMA report found a number of problems with the single pivotal clinical trial of Fluad in children. Furthermore, the EMA report states, “The current application, although related to a product developed more than 15 years ago and authorized for use in the elderly, includes only one study addressing clinical vaccine efficacy.” The report concludes, “The overall benefit-risk balance of Fluad Paediatric is negative.”
Despite a) the lack of evidence of benefit, b) limited and c) unreliable safety information, d) rejection in Europe, and e) no evidence of any other country using it for children, f) let alone use in infants–in 2015 the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) licensed Fluad pediatric for use in infants and babies aged 6 months to 2 years.
It seems that Canada’s youngest children have been selected to serve as the unwitting guinea pigs in a massive immune stimulation experiment of this novel-adjuvanted vaccine.
What were the members of the Public Health Advisory Committee thinking?
Will Canadian children serve as experimental subjects, without their parents’ knowledge, for additional vaccines selected for them by their public health agency?
If vaccine exemptions are removed, how can infants and toddlers be protected from public health officials whose primary allegiance may not be to the public?
Public health officials use the mass media, medical professionals and the levers of government to encourage, exhort and cajole vaccinations.
Their conduct with the Fluad pediatric vaccine has shown they must not be given the power to compel.
Flu shots at breakneck speed scandals:
Summarised by AHRP (2019):
In 2009, a GSK vaccine for pandemic flu caused 1300 cases of narcolepsy in Europe, mainly in adolescents and young adults. The European Medicines Agency failed to warn the public of this problem in a timely manner, leading to extended use of the problematic vaccine.
Possible reasons this occurred include the revolving door between vaccine manufacturers and regulators, the abbreviated safety testing of flu vaccines, and the liability protection given to manufacturers by governments. The episode provides a warning that regulators’ first priority may not always be the public’s welfare.
In this paper on Covid-19 vaccines, Dr. Doshi reminds us that inadequately tested vaccines have been the harbinger of serious, even lethal adverse events. He cites but a few vaccines that had been brought to market prematurely, during infectious disease outbreaks: in 1955, contaminated polio vaccines caused paralysis; in 1976, flu vaccines caused Guillain-Barré syndrome[18]; in 2009 an influenza vaccine caused narcolepsy[19]:
[19] Pandemrix vaccine: why was the public not told of early warning signs? (20/9-18): Eight years after the pandemic influenza outbreak, a lawsuit alleging that GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix vaccine caused narcolepsy has unearthed internal reports suggesting problems with the vaccine’s safety. Peter Doshi asks what this means for the future of transparency during public health emergencies.
[18] “Yet on rare occasions, this vital evidence-based process of vaccine development and testing has still been ignored. In 1976, concerns about the emergence of a new swine flu strain reminiscent of the lethal 1918 version led President Gerald Ford to convene a panel that recommended a government-backed mass vaccination program.[7] Poorly conceived, the attempt to vaccinate the US population at breakneck speed failed in virtually every respect. Safety standards deteriorated as one manufacturer produced the incorrect strain. The vaccine tested poorly on children who, depending on the form of vaccine tested, either developed adverse reactions with high fevers and sore arms or did not mount an immune response at all. Reports emerged that the vaccine appeared to cause Guillain-Barré syndrome in a very small number of cases, a finding that remains controversial, but added to the early momentum of the antivaccine movement.[7] Once again, the pressure to rapidly distribute a vaccine undermined the scientific integrity of the process and damaged public trust.”
[7] Reflections on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program (Jan. 2006)