{"id":388009,"date":"2018-12-06T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cdc-caught-spreading-misinformation-about-the-flu-shot\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:41:08","slug":"cdc-caught-spreading-misinformation-about-the-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cdc-caught-spreading-misinformation-about-the-flu-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Caught Spreading Misinformation About the Flu Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone aged six months and up, including pregnant women, get an annual influenza vaccine. The two fundamental assumptions underlying the CDC\u2019s policy are that vaccination reduces transmission of the virus and reduces the risk of potentially deadly complications. Yet multiple reviews of the scientific literature have concluded that\u00a0there is no good scientific evidence to support the CDC\u2019s claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the science, to increase demand for the pharmaceutical companies\u2019 influenza vaccine products,\u00a0the CDC makes use of fear marketing<\/a>, asserting as fact that tens of thousands of people die each year from the flu, even though the CDC\u2019s numbers actually estimate that are controversial because they are based on dubious assumptions that appear to result in a great overestimation of the negative impact of influenza on societal health.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0primary\u00a0<\/em>justification for the CDC\u2019s flu vaccine policy is the assumption that it significantly reduces the mortality rate among people aged 65 and older, the group at highest risk of potentially deadly complications from the flu. The CDC declares to the public that the vaccine does so as though this was a scientifically proven fact. Yet, the reality is that the CDC\u2019s bold claim that the vaccine greatly reduces the risk of death among the elderly has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community.
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\u2026 contrary to the CDC\u2019s claims of a great beneficial effect on mortality, influenza mortality and hospitalization rates for older Americans significantly increased in the 80s and 90s, during the same…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone aged six months and up, including pregnant women, get an annual influenza vaccine. The two fundamental assumptions underlying the CDC\u2019s policy are that vaccination reduces transmission of the virus and reduces the risk of potentially deadly complications. Yet multiple reviews of the scientific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}