About Those Charts That Show 60 Years of Failing Flu Vaccines

Why do some people believe that flu vaccines don’t work and that there are charts that show flu vaccines have been failing for 60 years?

The usual suspects…

Charts That Show 60 Years of Failing Flu Vaccines

So, we have seen mortality rate charts like this from anti-vaccine folks who use them to try and “prove” that vaccines don’t work.

And we have been able to easily show how they hide deaths that continued in the 1930s and 40s after improved hygiene and sanitation reduced much higher rates at the beginning of the century.

Can we do the same for their flu vaccine charts?

In this case, we can mostly let their flu mortality chart speak for itself…

Their flu mortality chart shows a clear correlation between rising flu vaccination rates and declining flu deaths!

How do you explain the drop in flu deaths in 1979?

Well, you can look at the real historical data and you can see that excess mortality from flu at that time looks nothing like their ‘failing’ flu vaccines chart!

For what it is worth, they are probably right about the timeline for the rising vaccination flu vaccinations though.

“Because young, otherwise healthy children are at increased risk for influenza-related hospitalization, influenza vaccination of healthy children aged 6-23 months is encouraged when feasible.”

Prevention and Control of Influenza. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2002

Remember, we didn’t begin to really start vaccinating and protecting more and more people until the 2002-03 flu season, when we had the first recommendation to vaccinate people who were not high risk.

And when you account for both population growth and an increase in the number of seniors (a population at high risk for death if they get the flu), then you can easily see that flu vaccines have worked very well to decrease flu deaths.

In fact, you can easily see that flu vaccines work in all of these charts!

It’s a great reminder to ignore propaganda aimed to scare you away from getting a flu vaccine and to get a flu vaccine each year.

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Last Updated on July 3, 2024