“Getting vaccinated every year is the best way to lower your chances of getting the flu.” That is the declaration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its website’s page dedicated to immunization for flu. The problem is that actual medical investigation instead indicates the shots are a dud when it comes to protecting people from flu.
The latest study showing this comes from the Cleveland Clinic. The results show a 27 percent higher rate of flu in the 2024-25 flu season among the Cleveland Clinic’s almost 44,000 employees who took the flu shots mandated by the Cleveland Clinic compared to among its almost 10,000 employees who escaped the mandated shots via claiming medical or religious exemption. Alex Berenson provided the details in an April 8 article at his Unreported Truths. The study authors’ conclusion that “We were unable to find that the influenza vaccine has been effective in preventing infection” Berenson aptly calls “a masterpiece of understatement.”
One obvious outcome suggested by this study is that the Cleveland Clinic and other businesses should end their mandates that employees take flu shots.
Most people would think that a job of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), so long as it exists, would be to pull colossal failures like the flu shots off the market, or at least to warn people that the shots look like they are all risk and no benefit. However, as it has done with other spurious pharmaceutical products, HHS is acting as a flu shots promoter. It goes so far on its flu immunization page as to recommend that, with quite limited exceptions, people over six months old take the shots yearly.
In February, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. signaled his desire that, instead of promoting that people take vaccines such as flu shots, the focus be on promoting that people exercise informed consent. There is a long way to go on achieving this objective. Where is the mention at the HHS flu immunization web page of indications the flu shots do not work? Where is the sharing of information about the people who have reported being hurt by the flu shots and who have even received compensation for flu shots injuries? Why are the shots still recommended for people down to the age of six months old?
The United States government and HHS do not have Americans’ backs on flu shots. HHS’s shots pushing does, though, help bring in the profits for pharmaceutical companies.
