Flu vaccine only 9 percent effective for seniors

[bradley]

Flu shot did poor job against worst bug in seniors from Feb 2013
http://news.yahoo.com/flu-shot-did-poor-job-against-worst-bug-170416843.html

This year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting senior citizens from the harshest strain this season, proving only 9 percent effective, the government said Thursday....

Flu vaccine tends to protect younger people better than older ones and never works as well as other kinds of vaccines. But experts say the preliminary results for seniors are disappointing and highlight the urgent need for a better vaccine.

Overall, the vaccine's effectiveness is a moderate 56 percent, which means those who got a shot have a 56 percent lower chance of winding up at the doctor with the flu. That is nearly as good as other flu seasons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

For those 65 and older, it offers far less protection. It is 27 percent effective against the three strains in the vaccine, the lowest in about a decade but not far below from what's expected. But the vaccine did a particularly poor job of protecting older people against the toughest flu bug, which is causing more than three-quarters of the illnesses this year. CDC officials say it's not clear why.

 

[bradley]

Oh noes, according to this chart we've had a flu EPIDEMIC every fucking year! 🙄

You're missing the point. These charts are way more predictable than the stock market, with the actual peaks being money making opportunities. And since vaccination makers have total immunity by law, there are no law suits to complicate your investment.

My recommendation is against the flu vaccination, instead buy stock in Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline. You then will have enough money to hire a doctor as fucking smart as Linus Pauling, or who understands the importance of simple supplementation with Vitamin C... especially during the winter.

 

[Nintendesert]

This is exactly why the healthy and young are supposed to get vaccinated. But no, we have moronic troglodytes that are too scientifically ignorant and willfully stupid to understand herd immunity.

Here, Harvard can help some of you backwards ass fools.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/video/herd-immunity/

The Flu vaccine in the healthy and young does more to help those with compromised immune systems either through age or disease than it does them. But some of you ignorant fucks are too selfish and stupid to give a shit about the person next to you and the reasons they might have for needing you to be vaccinated.

You dumb sorry fucks.

 

[MrDudeMan]

This is exactly why the healthy and young are supposed to get vaccinated. But no, we have moronic troglodytes that are too scientifically ignorant and willfully stupid to understand herd immunity.

Here, Harvard can help some of you backwards ass fools.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/video/herd-immunity/

The Flu vaccine in the healthy and young does more to help those with compromised immune systems either through age or disease than it does them. But some of you ignorant fucks are too selfish and stupid to give a shit about the person next to you and the reasons they might have for needing you to be vaccinated.

You dumb sorry fucks.

Well put, insults and all. They're completely deserved. Being willfully ignorant like almost everyone in this thread seems to be isn't a valid lifestyle.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So this information about seniors and the wrong vaccine. Not surprising that this is all nonsense.