Everything you’ve been told about flu vaccines is wrong. [Article from 20/3/25]

WHAT if I told you that increasing annual influenza vaccination of the elderly is associated with increased influenza-related death in the elderly?

What if I told you that annual influenza vaccination can make you more susceptible to influenza-like illness?

What if I told you that deploying leaky influenza vaccines (into either humans or poultry flocks) will accelerate the evolution of vaccine-resistant influenza viruses?

What if I told you that the real problem with influenza virus-associated death in the elderly is due to the aging of their immune systems (immunosenescence)?

What if I told you that most of the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ deaths could have been prevented if (antibacterial) antibiotics had been available?

What if I told you that most countries do not recommend population-wide annual influenza vaccination?

What if I told you that US annual influenza vaccination policy is influenced by a desire to support and maintain influenza manufacturing capacity?

What if I told you that most of what you have been told about annual influenza vaccination is propaganda?

I have written about most of these issues before, but not as bluntly as I do here. I thank and acknowledge Substack author Sharyl Attkison for triggering me to write in a more frank and plain style with the following Substack essay, which provides additional reporting and context for what I write below: 

https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/govt-researchers-flu-shots-not-effective

Background and Bona Fides 

I am an expert on influenza and influenza vaccine development. I once held the position of Director, Clinical Influenza Vaccine Development at Solvay (now Abvie) Pharmaceuticals under an approximately $350million US Government BARDA contract. I have won and/or managed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts for development of more effective influenza vaccines. I have spoken (by invitation) on innovative influenza vaccine development at the World Health Organization in Geneva. I also have lost clients and at least one job for just (internally) discussing the issue of influenza vaccines and ‘original antigenic sin’, which is a forbidden topic among influenza vaccine manufacturers and the scientific-medical guild that supports this industry.

I fully expect this essay to be weaponised against me by the likes of Media Matters and Government (and Pharma)-sponsored corporate media. They already demean me as a spreader of misinformation during the covid crisis, and as the vaccine-developing vaccine technology innovator who is an anti-vaxxer, and both sides (pro-vax and anti-vax) have called me a mass murderer for speaking truth to power. How much nastier can they get?

If the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement is to succeed, it must be willing to look the data in the face and not flinch from the obvious conclusions. It must be willing to examine long-standing assumptions and reconsider established public health policies. Because many, if not most US citizens are not healthy, and our average lifespan is declining. We are (on average) fat, suffering from an epidemic of chronic disease, and our massive levels of spending on ‘public health’ and ‘healthcare’ are not fixing the problem. 

Let’s examine these influenza vaccine heresies one by one. 

Increasing annual influenza vaccination of the elderly is associated with increased influenza-related death in the elderly

The main issue with influenza is ‘influenza-like’ disease and death (morbidity and mortality) in the elderly, and in those with significant pre-existent conditions. In other words, upper-respiratory viral pneumonia on top of certain other conditions can tip the sick and elderly over the edge. This is similar to the issue of disease and death from SARS-CoV-2 (covid) primarily happening to people that had other health problems, one of those other health problems being old age in general. People mostly died WITH covid, not necessarily FROM covid — same with influenza. And by the way, ‘influenza-like illness‘ is a grab bag. 

For purposes of public health data analysis, in most cases, upper respiratory viral disease is typically assumed to be due to influenza virus. The inconvenient fact is that there are many viruses and other pathogens that cause ‘influenza-like’ illness, disease and death. Influenza viruses (types A and B), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainfluenza viruses, rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, metapneumovirus, group A streptococcus, mycoplasma, chlamydia, and Bordetella pertussis. The most common cause of ‘walking pneumonia’ is mycoplasma, which is not really a virus! From this brief explanation, you can see that the cited ‘deaths from influenza’ data are usually inflated, just like ‘deaths from covid’ were.

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