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Originally Posted by taddy
I wish I had known that when I had the Flu jab
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Doctors are set targets to achieve when it comes to flu vaccinations.
So, in effect you are a cash cow for your GP's practice.
From the link that Exile posted, I spotted this bit of information...
Contrary to what we are now being told flu vaccines are not needed for everybody and they often don’t work that well. The respected Cochrane Review, concluded that flu vaccines and especially for healthy people, serve little purpose. when given to healthy people and have very moderate effect. In an earlier study the same researchers came to the following conclusion:
“The results of this review provide no evidence for the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure. As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may only be advised as an individual protective measure.”
Flu vaccines in general have, at best, been inconsistent in their efficacy. Overall, evidence shows that they only work on average 50% of the time (it can be much less some years if the vaccine is not a good match for that year’s circulating virus). There is some evidence that flu vaccines may predispose the recipient to other viral and bacterial diseases, meaning that the risk of serious illness from a corona virus is increased after a flu vaccine. Also, children between 2-18 years old can be given a nasal live flu vaccine, which, according to the package insert, warns that care must be taken: “if you are in close contact with someone with a severely weakened immune system (for example, a bone marrow transplant patient needing isolation“. The nasal vaccine is a live flu virus, the virus can shed and spread in the surrounding air for some days or weeks afterwards, putting parents, grandparents, including immune compromised people, other children or even people with COVID19 at risk. Therefore, questions should be asked whether giving children a live flu virus vaccine is a good idea, especially now with COVID19.
Just thought you might like to know this.