Flu Vaccine Information


Have you been given all the relevant information to help you make an informed choice?

8 September 2020

  • a study (1 below, discussed in articles at 5 and 6 below) shows that influenza vaccine can increase the risk of contracting a coronavirus (not necessarily COVID-19 but the same family of viruses) by 36%. Many studies show it can increase the risk of other viruses (5, 7, 8, 10 below).

  • according to an article in the British Medical Journal by an editor, D P Doshi, (2 below), the flu shot offers (limited) protection only against 16% of commonly circulating flu like viruses, the influenza strains only. The other 84% are caused by viruses that are not influenza and therefore not capable of being prevented by the flu shot.

  • there is no good unbiased research that proves influenza vaccine reduces death or hospitalisation

  • during the 2008-9 Swine Flu pandemic, people who received trivalent flu vaccine were 1.4-2.5 times more likely to get Swine flu as those who were unvaccinated (see 6 below).

  • In the US, influenza vaccine accounts for 40% of all vaccinations but 60% of all reported vaccine related adverse effects and increases the risk of miscarriage (9 and 3 below).

  • different considerations apply to nasal flu vaccine which is a live attenuated vaccine shown to actually spread flu to others, have poor effectiveness and carry unquantified risks (further information at 11 below).

The above statistics from published research is only a small selection of findings you should be aware of. You can research further information that your GP/nurse may not be familiar with. They lead extremely busy lives, so it is up to us all to become well informed; after all, it is our health and that of our loved ones that is at stake.

Here are some links to research and to useful articles which reference further research:

  • study by GG Wolff, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.vaccine.2019.10.005. The body of the study rather than just the abstract contains the relevant information.

  • "Influenza: Marketing Vaccine by Marketing Disease" by Peter Doshi, BMJ 2013, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f3037

  • "Reporting Flu Vaccine Science" by retired paediatrician, Allan Cunningham BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k15 . You will need to click on the responses tab at the top to see this letter

  • A number of highly informative articles at Children’s Health Defence:

List of articles : https://childrenshealthdefense.org/?s=influenza+