Don’t fall for the myth of the high-dose flu shot
The dangerous plan the CDC has for everyone over 65
How do we really know that fall has arrived?
Sure the jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows and Halloween decorations come out. But we know summer’s over for real when we’re hit over the head everywhere we go to get a flu shot.
You’ll be hearing dire warnings about serious complications that will land you in the hospital — or worse — if you don’t.
But this year there’s something extra special in store for everyone over 65.
And it’s not a pumpkin latte.
Imagine having a business where you can make a product, have no idea if it even works, get the government to push it for you and have no liability when it harms or kills.
What a deal!
Those are some of the perks that Big Pharma vaccine makers have.
And one of the biggest perks it got was the fast-track approval of the Fluzone High-Dose for seniors back in 2009.
Now when Fluzone High-Dose was approved, the CDC started pitching it with its usual flu-shot zeal. Everyone over 65 was told to rush out and demand it. But the most laughable part was no one had any idea if it even worked.
If you look at the Sanofi Pasteur brochure for the shot, it says that “there have been no controlled clinical studies demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with Fluzone High-Dose vaccine.”
And yet its cost — twice that of a regular flu shot — was still covered by Medicare!
What we did know for sure is that this quadruple-strength shot caused more “adverse events,” including some very serious ones…like death.
During the “follow-up” period after the FDA approved it, Sanofi reported 23 deaths in seniors they were tracking who received the vaccine.
The company also reported side effects such as low platelet counts, enlarged lymph nodes, life-threatening allergic reactions, extreme shoulder pain and paralysis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and convulsions.
But finally, last summer after 4 years and millions of Fluzone High-Dose shots in the arm, Sanofi made the big announcement. The study it paid for that was conducted by its researchers found that its Fluzone High-Dose for seniors actually “works.”
Really, what else would you expect?
The real kicker, however, was what the high dose shot was tested against. It was Sanofi’s “regular” flu vaccine.
So basically, Fluzone High-Dose works better than something that really doesn’t work very well at all.
In a big analysis of all studies done in the past 44 years — ones that were able to confirm influenza infection — the authors’ conclusion was that flu shots only “provide moderate protection” at best.
And if you’re over 65, the benefits are even below “moderate.”
But despite all that, Sanofi’s “research” about Fluzone High-Dose will be all it takes to make this flu season the most dangerous one of all for seniors.
The CDC will be telling you that this vaccine has been “proven” to protect you. And that you must get it.
The CDC propaganda that people — especially the elderly — are dropping like flies every year from the flu is pure fantasy. The truth is… they don’t know how many deaths are due to the flu.
They can’t point to a single life the vaccine has saved, either. The fact that this is all a big fat guess is even right on the CDC’s web site.
And that’s true even if you make that vaccine four times stronger.
Sources:
“High-dose flu vaccine: the evidence is in” Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, Medscape, Medscape.com
