Medicine that has lost its way
Cochrane review, (see below for study details)the most prestigious independent medical science review body has, after several reviews of flu vaccine efficacy concluded that "there is substantial uncertainty about the clinical effectiveness of influenza vaccines" and "The consequences of influenza in children and adults are mainly absenteeism from school and work." The flu vaccine does not change the likelihood of us getting the flu and at best it only reduces the symptoms marginally, if at all. Even worse is that it has no benefit at all for seniors and yet the media continue to run a scare campaign directed at seniors with advertisements on television for seniors to get the flu vaccine.
Why then is there this fear campaign being carried out in the media and who benefits from it?
www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab001753.html
www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab004879.html
www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab001169.html
www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab001269.html
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