'Have the elderly people in your family missed their flu shot? If so, they may have made the right decision. The New York Times recently reported that "A growing number of immunologists and epidemiologists say the vaccine probably does not work very well for people over 70," and that previous studies may have shown "not any actual protection against the flu virus but a fundamental difference between the kinds of people who get vaccines and those who do not -- simply because they went to the doctor more often." Influenza vaccination has been widely touted even though evidence of effectiveness is lacking.
One large scientific review looked at 40 years' worth of influenza vaccine studies. It found that flu shots were ineffective for elderly persons living in the community, and flu shots were "non-significant against influenza" for elderly living in group homes. The authors of another major review "found no correlation between vaccine coverage and influenza-like-illness attack rate."Author Dr. Thomas Jefferson said, "The vaccine doesn't work very well at all. Vaccines are being used as an ideological weapon. What you see every year as the flu is caused by 200 or 300 different agents with a vaccine against two of them. That is simply nonsense." Indeed, he commented, "What you see is that marketing rules the response to influenza, and scientific evidence comes fourth or fifth."'
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