A study by Cleveland Clinic of their employees during the 2024-25 winter flu season showed that the vaccinated were almost 27% more likely to contract flu than the unvaccinated; is this a one off, or part of a growing trend?
I am repeatedly asked by patients "Should I have the annual Flu jab". They are in the UK, and about to have cancer treatment and their oncologist thinks that they should have both a Covid-19 booster jab AND a 'flu jab.
Guessing the 'flu strain is difficult, maybe impossible
Let me be completely honest. I am nearly 76 and I've never had a flu jab in my life. There are two major reasons for this.
Firstly, I consider myself very healthy and frankly I haven't had the flu for 30 years or more.
Secondly, the powers that be in the UK have to play ‘guess the strain’ more than 18 months before the flu season. Yes, that's right - they have to try to work out which influenza virus is coming from the wilds of Southeast Asia almost two seasons ahead of our winter.
About seven years ago the British Government got it wrong completely, admitted this, and admitted they had wasted £7 billion on vaccines. Incredibly, doctors and government were still both saying that elderly citizens should ‘have a shot anyway because it just might help’, when the mismatched vaccine stood no chance of helping at all.
Having studied virology at Oxford University I can tell you definitively that the vaccines have to be like a jigsaw puzzle piece for the specific strain of flu’s jigsaw piece. it has to be a perfect fit. Anyone with a decent Science degree concerning viruses knows this.
Doctors need to be careful when encouraging or prescribing vaccination
This brings us to another issue. ‘What are the side effects of the annual flu vaccine?’ Most doctors and oncologists would say ‘none’ or ‘minimal’. Never forget, these are the same people who encouraged you to take your COVID-19 shot.
The EU Court of Justice has recently ruled that anybody suffering side effects can sue these same doctors! The EU court stated that the Doctors were prescribing a vaccine and, while vaccine side-effects were not their responsibility, they needed to consider whether a vaccination might result in patient harm on an individual basis. For example, someone on blood thinners or with a previous cardiovascular issue, might be more at risk of a side effect and it was the Doctor's responsibility to weigh these factors before injecting.
What about someone having three chemotherapy drugs? Are they safe to have a 'flu vaccine?
There are now at least ten court cases in the USA where citizens are taking a variety of actions against Dr Fauci - one is allegedly for murder.
Certain countries and certain States in the USA have stopped all mandates for Covid vaccines, and the Governor of Alberta in Canada has even apologised to all her citizens for making them take the ‘safe and effective’ Covid-19 vaccine, when every week we realise more and more that it was neither.
Flu vaccines increased US flu levels in 2024-5
And now we have research on the flu shots. The truth is out. Having a flu shot can make you 27% more likely to develop the illness you were trying to avoid. Since flu shots are targeted at the elderly, I can only conclude that they're trying to kill us off. Worse, I hear there are plans to make the Covid shot and the flu shot a joint vaccine in future years.
For the record, a preprint of a study by the prestigious Cleveland Clinic for their 53,000 employees over the 2024-25 season shows a risk of contracting flu of - 26.9%. Yes, minus 26.9%. In other words the people who were vaccinated developed almost a third more influenza cases than the people who weren't.
The study (1) was published last week on MedRxiv, having been conducted during a season marked by high flu transmission. Those responsible for the vaccines are blaming strain mismatches.
There is also a concern that the vaccines contain Thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, which will lower your immune system just when you need it in tip-top condition to prevent catching flu.
Increased 'flu vaccination; increased numbers of cases in the UK
But, maybe this is not just a one off due to 'mismatch'. In 2020 a study (2) published in The Annals of Internal Medicine showed that where people over 65 were encouraged to take a 'flu shot, their rate of hospitalisation WENT UP. Michael L. Anderson, PhD, an associate professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley found that, while it was seemingly good news that more people over 65 were being vaccinated, this was NOT reflected in a greater protection from hospitalisation or death. In this research 170 million people's data was used across the years 2000-2014 - they were all between 55 and 75 and living in the UK.
A number of news commentators in the USA, UK and Australia have picked up on this. "Higher 'flu death rates despite higher vaccination levels".
Of course, there are now reports that 2025 saw high rates of flu deaths, but that was not because of poor 'mismatch' vaccines as the Cleveland Clinic found, but because of ... vaccine skepticism; and that is because of vaccine alarmists (3). We shouldn't be telling you what Cleveland Clinic found.
Vaccine alarmists are everywhere science finds a place. Science is debate based on facts. One interesting quote came recently from MAHA head, Robert Kennedy Jr, on the subject of the high levels of autism in young Americans. He stated that the Amish did not allow their babies and young to be vaccinated. They had never had a case of Autism. Clearly a vaccine alarmist.
Many would argue that vaccine skepticism has been brought to the fore by the continuous flow of misinformation from Governments and the refusal to acknowledge the clear side-effects and even deaths caused by Covid-19 vaccinations. The skepticism is not just confined to the vaccines. If doctors and Oncologists are going to continue to recommend vaccines that combine neither safety nor effectiveness, the public will lose all faith in them too, not just vaccines - if it has not done so already.
We are clearly now going to see a predictable open war between the MAHA Health Authorities under Donald Trump questioning the side-effects and effectiveness of all vaccines, and Big Pharma and their friends in the Media telling us about old ladies and young children dying because the vaccine skepticism reduced vaccination levels.
Highly predictable and damaging to everyone. Big Pharma has a lot to lose. They won't go away quietly.
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References
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Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season; Nabin K. Shrestha, Patrick C. Burke, Amy S. Nowacki, Steven M. Gordon; Posted April 04, 2025; MedRxiv
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Flu vaccination does not reduce hospitalizations, death in older adults; Erin Michael, Healio, March 03, 2020
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Flu deaths rise as anti-vaccine disinformation takes root; The Virginia Mercury March 25th 2025