Not 60% as you’ve been told
Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, October 27, 2011
A new scientific study published in The Lancet reveals that influenza
vaccines only prevent influenza in 1.5 out of every 100 adults who are
injected with the flu vaccine. Yet, predictably, this report is being
touted by the quack science community, the vaccine-pushing CDC and the
scientifically-inept mainstream media as proof that “flu vaccines are
60% effective!”
This absurd claim was repeated across the mainstream media over the
past few days, with all sorts of sloppy reporting that didn’t even
bother to read the study itself (as usual).
NaturalNews continues to earn a reputation for actually READING these
“scientific” studies and then reporting what they really reveal, not
what some vaccine-pushing CDC bureaucrat wants them to say. So we
purchased the PDF file from The Lancet and read this study to get the
real story.
The “60% effectiveness” claim is a total lie – here’s why
What we found is that the “60% effectiveness” claim is utterly absurd
and highly misleading. For starters, most people think that “60%
effectiveness” means that for every 100 people injected with the flu
shot, 60 of them won’t get the flu!
Thus, the “60% effectiveness” claim implies that getting a flu shot
has about a 6 in 10 chance of preventing you from getting the flu.
This is utterly false.
In reality — and this is spelled out right in Figure 2 of the study
itself, which is entitled, “Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza
vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis” — only about 2.7 in 100
adults get the flu in the first place!
See the abstract at:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/l…
Flu vaccine stops influenza in only 1.5 out of 100 adults who get the shots
Let’s start with the actual numbers from the study.
The “control group” of adults consisted of 13,095 non-vaccinated
adults who were monitored to see if they caught influenza. Over 97% of
them did not. Only 357 of them caught influenza, which means only 2.7%
of these adults caught the flu in the first place. (CONTINUE READING)