New Cochrane Review: Flu vaccines fail 99%

David Brownstein, M.D.
Dr. Brownstein's Holistic Medicine
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 16:28 UTC

For over 20 years, I have been writing and lecturing about how the flu vaccine fails nearly all who get it. I have written about the failure of the flu vaccine in past blog posts and in my newsletter, Dr. Brownstein's Natural Way to Health.

Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers in more than 130 countries who strive to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of illness. They do not take Big Pharma money. Therefore, their studies deserve attention when they are released.

On February 1, 2018, the Cochrane group released its latest findings on the flu vaccine. ⁽¹⁾ The scientists studied randomized, controlled trials comparing the flu vaccine with placebo or no intervention. They included 52 clinical trials of over 80,000 people assessing the safety and effectiveness of flu vaccines in healthy adults. The studies were conducted between 1969 and 2009.

The authors found that flu vaccines probably reduced influenzas in healthy adults from 2.3% without vaccination to 0.9% with.

That means that the difference between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated is 1.4% or 0.014. Therefore, 71 people would need to be treated with the flu vaccine to prevent one case (1/1.4%). In other words, the flu vaccine did nothing for 70 out of 71 who received it. That means this study found the flu vaccine failed 99% (71/72).

There was more bad news for the flu vaccine in this study. The flu vaccine is touted as decreasing the risk of hospitalizations from the flu. I'm not sure how that happens since the vaccine has never been shown to be very effective against preventing the flu. In this study they found the risk of hospitalization in those that received the flu vaccine declined from 14.7% to 14.1%. That is a 0.6% decline. That means the flu vaccine fails over 99% (165/166) in preventing hospitalizations.

Furthermore, the independent researchers found the flu vaccine "...may lead to little or no small reduction in days off work." To make matter worse, the flu vaccine was shown to cause an increase in fever from 1.5% to 2.3%. Oy vey.

Why would anyone get a flu vaccine when it fails 99% who receive it?

Why would any physician prescribe a therapy, which is associated with serious adverse effects, that fails 99% who receive it?

Why are health care workers forced to receive a flu vaccine when it is consistently shown to fail nearly 99% who get them? And, there is not a single well-done study showing that vaccinating health care workers with the flu vaccine protects against the spread of flu.

Folks, the flu vaccine is a disaster. I can understand why President Trump does not get the flu shot. I cannot understand why anyone would allow themselves to be injected with a failed flu vaccine.

(1) Cochrane Database Syst. Rev. 2018. Feb. 1,2:CD001269

Comment: See also: No Value in Any Influenza Vaccine: Cochrane Collaboration Study

Reader Comments

binra · 2018-02-06T22:05:31Z

Did the study pick up on illness as a result of the vaccine that is generally not realised to be so - because the 'safety' is so impregnated in its acceptance and in some places, almost mandatory compliance?

Observer · 2018-02-12T23:04:10Z

"Why would anyone get a flu vaccine when it fails 99% who receive it?"

1. Ignorance

2. Foolishness

3. Self Loathing

4. Suicidal tendencies

5. peer pressure (cult of conformity perpetuated by vaccine cult)

6. Under duress (job security under threat) this happens because insurance companies incentivize hospitals/companies to meet a compliance quota in order to get bonuses/discounts on employee coverage costs.

Ruth · 2018-02-12T23:08:42Z

Observer You forgot fear, but I'd say ignorance is no. 1!

Ruth · 2018-02-12T23:39:31Z

I had another thought too. In the original pandemic of 1918, they say it killed more people than what the 'Great War' did (WW1). The victims were usually healthy young people. The scale of it was censored, at the time to try and boost moral. Except in Spain, and it became known as the 'Spanish Flu'.

Over the years our species adapted and had better nutrition and less stress as well (war isn't real good for stress levels). The virus was also very adaptable and we ended up with over 100 different types just for our species. I think I read somewhere that 15% of them cause the common cold.

Has this mania for giving flu shots caused the problem? I.e increasing the virulence of circulating strains by exerting evolutionary pressure on the less virulent ones? Of course, messing with someone immune system by giving vaccines - which don't work as well as a natural infection for any disease and have universally been introduced after mortality rates decline 90-99%; Could the action of having a vaccine increase susceptibility to an infection?

Especially if this whole flu thing is a faith based, fear based, have an injection because it'll 'fix' everything, religion....

Belief systems have a power too. If I believe that avoiding a flu shot will protect me and keep me healthy and another person thinks that having one will keep them healthy. Could be a placebo effect.