Flu Stats: Cooking the Books?

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I came across a site that had a link to this archived AMA article on

Flu vaccines based upon the data from 1980 to 2001. It's interesting,

and goes against everything we hear on the news. BTW, did you know that

the 36,000 per year death rate the CDC quotes is misleading as well? It

lumps flu deaths together with pneumonia deaths and appears to include

ALL pneumonia deaths - not just flu related pneumonia*.

Also, heads up - Remember the flu shot shortage last year? Well, they

produced a lot of the H5N1 flu vaccine AFTER the season was past. Let's

see if that's the one they " push " this year. It's difficult to find

actual " vaccine " related death statistics - especially JUST flu vaccine

related death stats. I'm still searching - and if anyone happens to

know this info, please post it.

Anna

 

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/3/265

 

We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with

declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of

all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we

conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate

vaccination benefit.

 

 

Author Affiliations: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases (NIAID) (Dr Simonsen) and Fogarty International Center (Drs

Viboud and Miller), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md; and

Entropy Research Institute, Boston, Mass (Dr Reichert).

 

Here are the total flu deaths from the report. From 1979 to 2001, the

stats were released every two years.

 

1979: 604

1981: 3,006

1983: 1,431

1985: 2,054

1987: 632

1989: 1,593

1991: 1,137

1993: 1,044

1995: 606

1996: 745

1997: 720

1998: 1,724

1999: 1,665

2000: 1,765

2001: 257

www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/

PI1.PDF

(thanks to Jon Rappoport for listing the stats in a recent article)