NIH Has Known For Decades That Flu Vaccinations Increase Deaths Among The Elderly

TheExpose | Expose-news.com | Rhoda Wilson

In 2006, CBS News reported that despite a significant increase in the percentage of seniors getting flu shots – from 15% to 65% over two decades – the death rate among the elderly did not decrease as expected.  Instead, the death rate among the elderly increased substantially.

In 2005, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) launched an effort to do “the” definitive study that would actually prove, for the first time, once and for all, that flu vaccines were beneficial to the elderly.  The study, published in JAMA, was covered up but Sharyl Attkisson, at the time an investigative journalist for CBS, aired a report on it in 2006.   

In her report, she interviewed Dr. Thomas Reichert, a co-author of the study.  She had originally agreed to interview the lead author, Lone Simonsen, but Simonsen’s bosses at the NIH blocked the interview.  Dr. Reichert was independent of the US government and so Attkisson was able to interview him.

“Here’s what scientists have found,” Attkisson said. “Over 20 years, the percentage of seniors getting flu shots increased sharply from 15% to 65%. It stands to reason that flu deaths among the elderly should have taken a dramatic dip … Instead, flu deaths among the elderly continued to climb.”

“We realised we had incendiary material,” Dr. Reichert said.  They not only checked the data to make sure what they found was correct, “we’ve looked at other countries now and the same is true,” he said.

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Attkisson revisited her investigation in her blog in 2015.  She said the study emphasised how these vaccines might kill lives instead of saving them. While the researchers wanted to prove that the pressure on mass flu vaccination would save the world, they were “surprised” that the data did not support their assumption at all. The data actually shows that the number of deaths in the elderly increased after vaccination: 60 percent of people aged 65 and over have an enormously increased risk of death if they get the flu shot.

Last year, she again reminded her readers about Simonsen’s 2005 study in an article on her Substack page. “An important and definitive ‘mainstream’ government study done nearly two decades ago got little attention because the science came down on the wrong side,” she wrote.

“It found that after decades and billions of dollars spent promoting flu shots for the elderly, the mass vaccination program did not result in saving lives. In fact, the death rate among the elderly increased substantially,” she said.

Adding, “After the Simonsen study, many international studies also arrived at the same conclusion. Flu shots weren’t correlated with declining mortality in any age group. Yet you probably haven’t heard much about these ‘incendiary’ findings.”

Read Simonsen’s commentary on her study HERE.

Sources:

• Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All, Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
• Flu Shots Increase the Risk of Death in the Elderly, What’s Behind the Dots, 12 September 2019

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