The results showed a positive association between COVID-19 deaths and IVR of people ≥65 years-old. There is a significant increase in COVID-19 deaths from eastern to western regions in the world. Further exploration is needed to explain these findings, and additional work on this line of research may lead to prevention of deaths associated with…
Tag: Influenza
National Health Freedom Action reports “Coercion to Get Flu Shots is Increasing Based on Fear and Dangerous Thinking”
Coercion: Fear of COVID-19 is being used by academic institutions, state agencies, and even New Jersey legislators, to coerce students and employees into now receiving influenza vaccines. These actions are forcing students and employees to choose between their educational goals or employment and their right to make their own medical decisions. Exemptions for personal or…
Physicians for Informed Consent delivers statement “Opposing UC Regents’ Flu Vaccine Mandate”
On behalf of hundreds of physician and scientist members of Physicians for Informed Consent, I am writing out of our concern that the bodily integrity of UC students, faculty, and staff is being potentially sacrificed by the recent UC Regents’ flu vaccine mandate,1 with no robust scientific justification. Patients have reported becoming ill following flu vaccination….
Home Vaccine Education Network reports “The Influenza Vaccine and COVID-19”
Flu Injection — Fatal Infection What connects the countries of Belgium, Peru, the UK, Spain, Italy, Chile, Sweden, the US, Mexico, and France? These countries, the top ten in COVID-19 mortality (as of August 24, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins), all injected more than 49% of their elderly populations with the flu vaccine. This stands in stark…
GreenMedinfo reports “Studies Question Transmission of 1918 Spanish Flu”
The 1918 Spanish flu is said to have been one of the most highly virulent, contagious diseases of all time, but when researchers attempted to spread it from person to person — by directly spraying “infectious” secretions into people’s noses, eyes and throats — no one got sick. https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/studies-question-transmission-1918-spanish-flu
National Health Freedom Action petition: “Stop Government Coercion: States Attempt Forcing Dangerous Flu Vaccines on Students and Faculty”
The right of people to make their own medical decisions as to how they want to promote their own health and survival is at the heart of American values and personal liberty. The importance of the protection of personal autonomy, health choice, and basic human fundamental rights of self-determination are at stake as we move…
Forbes reports “Massachusetts Mandates Flu Vaccinations For Students Of All Ages”
Influenza immunization will be required for all children 6 months of age or older who are attending child care, pre-school, K-12, and colleges and universities in Massachusetts, state public health officials announced Wednesday, in an effort to reduce respiratory illness and flu-related sickness during the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/08/19/massachusetts-mandates-flu-vaccinations-for-students-of-all-ages/#5b06896c126d
Study finds influenza vacccination increases coronavirus risk
“Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017-2018 influenza season.“ CONCLUSIONS: Receipt of influenza vaccination was not associated with virus interference among our population. Examining virus interference by specific respiratory viruses showed mixed results. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus; however, significant protection…
Dr. James Lyons-Weiler on “Is CDC Borrowing Pneumonia Deaths ‘From Flu’ for ‘From COVID-19’?”
An analysis from Dr. James Lyons-Weiler on influenza/pneumonia statistics and their relationship to Covid-19 statistics. CDC needs to stop conflating influenza/pneumonia deaths so we can get accurate comparisons between these infectious diseases. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cdc-borrowing-pneumonia-deaths-from-flu-covid-19-james-lyons-weiler
Scientific American reports ‘Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges’
A Scientific American op-ed which comments. “The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates.” The problem with how the nation measures fly statistics are coming to light. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/