Flu / Influenza Johns Hopkins Scientist Reveals Shocking Report on Flu Vaccines

The following article reports on Peter Doshi, Pd.D. Dr. Doshi's impressive credentials are as follows:

• Peter Doshi is an assistant professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the School of Pharmacy and associate editor at The BMJ
• Doshi has worked on a Cochrane systematic review of neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza.
• Doshi completed a fellowship in comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins and received his Ph.D. in history, anthropology, and science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

references http://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/pdoshi/
According to the article, Dr. Doshi believes that the vaccines are being strongly pushed on the public, but are less effective, and have more side effects than the CDC lets on.

Dr. Doshi also claims that the studies that fuel the CDC's policies are of low quality, and do not actually say what the CDC's claims do.

Important points and quotes from the article:

"Even when the vaccine is closely matched to the type of influenza that’s prevalent, which doesn’t happen every year, randomized, controlled trials of healthy adults found that vaccinating between 33 and 100 people resulted in one less case of influenza."

"no evidence exists to show that this reduction in the risk of influenza for a specific population — here in the United States, among healthy adults, for example — extrapolates into any reduced risk of serious complications from influenza, such as hospitalizations or deaths, among seniors."

“For most people, and possibly most doctors, officials need only claim that vaccines save lives, and it is assumed there must be solid research behind it,” says Doshi. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, he says.

Johns Hopkins Scientist Reveals Shocking Report on Flu Vaccines

by SYLVIA BOOTH HUBBARD
A Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza vaccines in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D., charges that although the vaccines are being pushed on the public in unprecedented numbers, they are less effective and cause more side effects than alleged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, says Doshi, the studies that underlie the CDC’s policy of encouraging most people to get a yearly flu shot are often low quality studies that do not substantiate the official claims.

Promoting influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies in the United States, says Doshi of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Drug companies and public officials press for widespread vaccination each fall, offering vaccinations in drugstores and supermarkets. The results have been phenomenal. Only 20 years ago, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United States on an annual basis. Today, the total has skyrocketed to 135 million doses.

“The vaccine may be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza seems to be overstated,” Doshi says. Mandatory vaccination polices have been enacted, often in healthcare facilities, forcing some people to take the vaccine under threat of losing their jobs.

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