Documents show some shocking facts about Tamiflu

The “selling” of the flu season comes in two parts.

First, is the hysteria over getting the flu shot.

And then, when people are still coming down with the flu (could that be because the vaccines don’t really work?), there are the ads selling a drug to treat the flu.

And that would be Tamiflu.

Now you would think after all the scandal that’s gone on with Tamiflu that health departments, the CDC, and doctors would stop recommending it and prescribing it.

Because Tamiflu can do lots of things, mostly things you definitely don’t want.

I’m talking about things like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

But when it comes to reducing the severity of flu symptoms and complications and even helping to stop transmission of the flu — well, not so much.

Over 20 years ago Roche, which makes the drug, funded a lot of studies on it.

And then basically locked them in a vault.

But when the documents were finally forced out of hiding, they revealed that Tamiflu really doesn’t work very well.

Even worse, for elderly and ill patients, the ones more likely to get complications from the flu, it did absolutely nothing!

And now new information has come to light claiming that the researchers who support the use of Tamiflu (and another antiviral drug) had their work funded by the drug companies.

What a surprise!

Sources:
“Millions of patients given flu drugs with little or no benefit, study finds” Melissa Davey, October 7, 2014, The Guardian, theguardian.com