Flu Vaccine Just 49 Percent Effective This Season: CDC Data
Data from the CDC’s New Vaccine Surveillance Network showed the flu vaccines were 49 percent effective against hospitalization or emergency department visits
The total was higher, 68 percent, for just inpatient admissions.
The network includes seven hospitals across seven states, including Texas Children’s Hospital Houston and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Vaccine effectiveness estimates were drawn from data collected on hospital admissions and emergency department visits from Sept. 13, 2022, to Jan. 25, 2023, according to a presentation CDC officials gave the agency’s vaccine advisory panel on Feb. 22.
The data covered laboratory-confirmed influenza A infections in children aged 6 months to 17 years. Influenza a subtypes were behind 99.5 percent of the cases this season, according to sequencing.
Preliminary results from a different CDC-run network, the Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill (IVY) network, showed the vaccines were 43 percent effective against influenza A-associated hospitalizations among adults, including just 35 percent among adults aged 65 and older.
Researchers took data from IVY from Oct. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022.
IVY is comprised of nearly two dozen sites across the country, including Baystate Medical Center and the Henry Ford Health.
Estimates drawn from a third CDC-run network, the VISION network, showed the vaccines were 44 percent effective against influenza A-associated emergency room or urgent care visits, and 39 percent effective against influenza A-associated hospitalizations.
Estimates were arrived at after examining data from Oct. 15, 2022, to Jan. 24, 2023 for emergency room/urgent care visits and from Oct. 15, 2022, to Jan. 21, 2023, for hospitalizations.
The network has sites in multiple states, including in California.
The estimates from all three networks were reached by comparing vaccination odds among people who had influenza A compared with control patients who tested negative for influenza and COVID-19.
The estimates were adjusted for factors such as age. Unadjusted effectiveness estimates were mostly lower.
CDC officials said in their presentation that the figures showed “consistent influenza vaccine effectiveness” and “substantial protection.”
They excluded co-influenza and COVID-19 infections because they believed that could bias the flu vaccine effectiveness estimates.
Dr. Sarah Long, a professor of pediatrics at the Drexel University College of Medicine, and a member of the advisory panel, said that the results were disappointing.
While it’s “reassuring that it’s higher effectiveness” than the past two years, “it still is for all of us disappointing after all of this time, an annual immunization” brings “such a low protection against hospitalization in adults,” she said after the presentation.
She questioned whether officials were examining new vaccines that work better.
“You are asking for the holy grail,” Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot, who chairs the panel’s Influenza Work Group, responded. Scientists are trying to develop vaccines that trigger better protection but “we’re asking the vaccine to do something that the own human immune system has not quite figured out to do,” she said, noting that many adults are exposed to the flu throughout their lives but continue to get infected.
The current vaccines are largely the same as the one developed for military recruits decades ago, Talbot said. The vaccines do “prevent a fair number of hospitalizations and hence deaths, so we will continue to use [them] until the holy grail appears,” she said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases until he stepped down around the end of 2022, recently said that influenza vaccines provide “short-lived protection” and that the shots have barely improved for decades.
Smaller Studies
Researchers in Wisconsin, also slated to present to the panel, estimated that the influenza vaccines were 54 percent effective against outpatient influenza A among people aged 6 months to 64 years, and 71 percent effective against symptomatic influenza among children aged 1 to 17.
Researchers examined data from the fall of 2022 through early 2023 to reach the estimates. They are employed by the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, with the work being partially funded by the CDC.
The Wisconsin research only covered a small number of participants, all within the state. For the child effectiveness estimates, for instance, only 241 children were studied.
Like the CDC researchers, the Wisconsin researchers also excluded people who tested positive for COVID-19 and only included controls who tested negative for both influenza and COVID-19.
They also didn’t count people who were infected by influenza within 14 days of vaccination.
Multiple influenza vaccines are approved for use in the United States. They are meant to provide “immunization against influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes,” according to regulators.
Experts try to predict which strains of flu will circulate in the country ahead of time and manufacturers switch up the composition of the vaccines before each season.
Influenza vaccine effectiveness “varies from season to season and depends in part on the age and health status of the person getting the vaccine and the similarity or ‘match’ between the viruses in the vaccine and those in circulation,” the CDC says on its website.
In some years, the vaccine provides “substantial benefits” but in others, the effectiveness has been measured as minimal.
In the 2021–22 season, the CDC’s VISION network estimated the protection against hospitalization at just 25 percent.
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Stay away from vaccines…………ALL OF THEM!!!
“The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination has been an assault on the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are actually changing our genetic code through vaccination…..100 years from now we will know that the biggest crime against humanity was vaccines.”
-Dr Guylaine Lanctor author of “The Medical Mafia”
“Much of what you have been led to believe about immunization simply isn’t true. If I were to follow my deeper convictions, I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child….There in convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease”
-Dr Robert Mendelsohn author of “Confessions of a Medical Heretic”
“These chronic diseases, including hay fever, asthma, cancer, and AIDS, are the result of wrong interventions upon the organism by conventional medicine…..the immune systems of the Western population, through strong chemical drugs and repeated vaccinations, have broken down…..medicine, instead of curing diseases, is actually the cause of the degeneration of the human race”
-Dr Juan Manuel Martinez Mendez writing in the Aug/Sept 2004 Townsend Letter
The Truth About Vaccinations – History and Hoax
https://thetruthaboutvaccines.com/the-truth-about-vaccinations/
Vaccine Ingredients and Vaccine Secrets
https://healthwyze.org/reports/60-vaccine-secrets
The Poisoned Needle – Eleanor McBean:
https://THEBIGVIRUSHOAX.COM/THE-POISONED-NEEDLE
https://archive.org/details/the-poisoned-needle-eleanor-mc-bean/page/n11/mode/2up
VAXXED VS. UNVAXXED: A STUDY FINALLY PROVES UNVACCINATED CHILDREN ARE HEALTHIER
https://thefamilythathealstogether.com/vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed-are-unvaccinated-children-healthier-than-those-who-are-vaccinated/
10 Most SURPRISING and DANGEROUS ingredients in vaccines, and the industry’s poor explanations for why they’re used
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2022/12/08/10-most-surprising-and-dangerous-ingredients-in-vaccines-and-the-industrys-poor-explanations-for-why-theyre-used/
Dr. Andrew Moulden: All Vaccines Cause Ischemia (Impaired Blood Flow) Which Blocks Oxygen Delivery Leading to Chronic Disease
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/All-Vaccines-Cause-Ischemia-(Impaired-Blood-Flow)-Which-Blocks-Oxygen-Delivery22jul15.shtml#top
https://thevaccinereaction.org/
https://www.vaccinesandchristianity.org/
Vaccination industry in a nutshell
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/vaccination-industry-in-a-nutshell/
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Tom
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Nothing other than continued CDC lies. The “flu” season vanished in 2020 and has not come back. It has been replaced by the covid-19 variant parade of which seems to never end. No flu vaccine has ever worked to any great degree. It’s all hogwash, propaganda and big pharma nonsense.
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herb
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All flue vaccines were reformulated last year to include mRNA in them so they MUST be avoided just like the covid vaxx .
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Auntie Vaxina
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Is anyone of sane mind going to believe anything big pharma has to say about vaccines?
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Seriously
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‘FDA approves first at-home test for flu & covid’ Single use, combination test can be used to detect both illnesses.
Headline of an article in my local newspaper a few days ago. The miracle of medical science disemble begins! They’re never going to admit what they’ve done. A couple days after, this headline:
‘Study: Covid may boost odds of developing autoimmune diseases ‘ Research indicates it could be 43% more likely after infection
It doesn’t mention the fact of ‘natural’ infection or infection after Vax administration. But considering EVERY SINGLE PERSON I KNOW who has been vaxed also report they have ‘tested’ positive for covid SEVERAL TIMES after Vax, I’m going to say that it has become clear to the ‘Machine’ that they are going to be unable to hide Vax injuries so are pumping the propaganda stacks, starting now, to explain it all. If you didn’t see this comimg, you are a fool! Someone with the knowledge and ability needs to find a way to prove synthetic Vax was cause, not a natural phenomenon…
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