My OP ED piece

The Ledger had a very interesting article on Saturday, January 27, 2007: Parent's object to vaccine proposal. A representative of NJ's AMA affiliate, the Medical Society of New jersey, and two public health officials recommend an annual flu shot to children ages 6 months to 5 years old.

Based on U.S. mortality rates from 1968 to 2001, a study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found no correlation between increasing vaccination rates after 1980 and declining death rates in any age group.
"We conclude, therefore, that there are not enough influenza-related deaths to support the conclusion that vaccination can reduce total winter mortality among the U.S. elderly population...," study author Lone Simonsen wrote in The Archives of Internal Medicine.

The flu vaccine had always been pushed on the elderly and those in nursing homes.

A 2004 study published by the Centers for Disease Control (the same organization that recommends it now for children) and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, looked at workers at Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado.

Of the 1,000 people who got the vaccine before November 1, 149 went on to develop influenza-like illness (14.9 percent). Of the 402 people who did not get the vaccine, 68 got an influenza-like illness (16.9 percent), the study said. Again - the vaccine was statistically worthless.

Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, New Jersey's deputy health commissioner and state epidemiologist, noted that NJ is acting based on recommendations over the last couple of years from the CDC.

"I hope we use absolutely every one of those doses, but we know that the demand for vaccine doesn't really match up to the list of people who we think really should have it," Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control said. This comment was made right around the time last year when they started recommending it for infants.

Yet, again, Tom Jefferson, MD, and colleagues at Cochrane Vaccines Field in Italy, conducted a review of the flu shots efficacy. Findings were reported in the September 22nd issue of The Lancet. According to the study, vaccines against influenza are only "modestly effective" in people in long-term care facilities and even less effective for elderly people still living in the community. Dr. Marc Siegel, author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear, said, "We have set up a situation where a fear is created, and then we try to create the treatment for this fear. The public gets the idea that the flu is going to kill them and the vaccine will save them. Neither is true." "The vaccine doesn't work very well at all," said study author Dr. Jefferson, an epidemiologist. "Vaccines are being used as an ideological weapon. What you see every year as the flu is caused by 200 or 300 different agents with a vaccine against two of them. That is simply nonsense."

I contacted the CDC in October of 2006. "Who does the CDC think should 'really' have it? What is that recommendation based on? Is it your very own organization's (CDC) studies showing that it does not work?", I asked. I was told my inquiry was forward to media relations. I never received a reply after that.

So, as I wrote last year: Lone Simonsen, senior epidemiologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said perhaps we should expand vaccination to schoolchildren. This is the same industry that kept promoting Vioxx to us.

And now they are doing just that. Lone Simonsen of the NIAID recommends expanding the vaccine to schoolchildren after a NIAID study shows it is worthless in adults and Dr. Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control does the same after a CDC study shows the inoculation to be worthless in adults. How curious and sad.


They used to force it on the elderly. Then study after study showed that it did not work. So they needed to sell it somewhere - and they turned to the least able to complain - infants. Yet there are no studies showing it works in children either. Basically they recommend it for children solely based on the fact that there are no studies showing it harms children [yet]! That's because it was never an immunization forced upon children before and therefore it is not linked to the studies that show the harm that childhood vaccines have caused. Basically they market a worthless, much hyped, $30 dollar injection of ethylene glycol (antifreeze), formaldehyde, aluminum and mercury. If you look at the ingredients of the inhaled vaccine, Flu-Mist, it gets worse. They throw in monosodium glutamate (MSG) for you to inhale.


In 5 years they'll be recommending it for children 5-9. Then 10-14. Then ...


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