Gabriella - Now, let me preface this by saying that I am not by any means encouraging you to necessarily share this particular article with your daughter and I’ll explain why. While the data they shared about the efficacy may be accurate, it’s from CDC MMWR who are clearly extremely biased and no matter how bad the efficacy or side effec…
Gabriella - Now, let me preface this by saying that I am not by any means encouraging you to necessarily share this particular article with your daughter and I’ll explain why. While the data they shared about the efficacy may be accurate, it’s from CDC MMWR who are clearly extremely biased and no matter how bad the efficacy or side effects, etc., they are still going to praise up the shots, tell you how much you still need them and how good they are for you, and recommend everyone still take them, which is what they proceed to do in the article. However, they reported that for the 2019-2020 influenza season, the shots were found to be only 45% effective, with the numbers at 50% for influenza B and only 37% for influenza A. As I mentioned in my original comment, I personally have less seroconversion to vaccines, sometimes 3x less so, that for me basically meant I was only at about 15% efficacy that year. Pair that with the risk, any vaccine can cause me anaphylaxis, or an inflammatory response with my immune system which can throw my POTS, Crohn’s, MCAS into a flare…the benefit does NOT outweigh risk. But they never explain this to you. I also have asthma but, it’s always under control with my MCAS treatment and lifestyle changes. It doesn’t make me any higher risk than anyone else and I don’t need a shot just because I hold the diagnosis. Same with Pneumonia vaccines. My mother is 67 and was insistent that now she was older surely she must be high risk and “had” to have one. But pneumonia is caused by multiple things, bacteria, viruses, fungus. The Pneumonia vaccine only protects you from the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, and only 23 strains of it…there are 80. Now, while they say that the 23 they have put in the vaccine are what causes most cases of bacterial pneumonia, that’s 50% of cases, at best, and you are not protected against pneumonia caused by any other microbe, including viruses. People get hospital acquired pneumonia from E. Coli, Enterobacter, Staph, Klebsiella pneumoniae, etc. Also there is ventilator acquired pneumonia. Or pneumonia from having allergies and asthma and then living in a house with mold or an animal you’re allergic to. I could go on. I mean, if people know this and still want one that’s there prerogative but, they deserve to know it’s not “protection from all pneumonia”. And again, certain genotypes or immune systems will be prone to overreacting to any foreign substance, including vaccines.
Gabriella - Now, let me preface this by saying that I am not by any means encouraging you to necessarily share this particular article with your daughter and I’ll explain why. While the data they shared about the efficacy may be accurate, it’s from CDC MMWR who are clearly extremely biased and no matter how bad the efficacy or side effects, etc., they are still going to praise up the shots, tell you how much you still need them and how good they are for you, and recommend everyone still take them, which is what they proceed to do in the article. However, they reported that for the 2019-2020 influenza season, the shots were found to be only 45% effective, with the numbers at 50% for influenza B and only 37% for influenza A. As I mentioned in my original comment, I personally have less seroconversion to vaccines, sometimes 3x less so, that for me basically meant I was only at about 15% efficacy that year. Pair that with the risk, any vaccine can cause me anaphylaxis, or an inflammatory response with my immune system which can throw my POTS, Crohn’s, MCAS into a flare…the benefit does NOT outweigh risk. But they never explain this to you. I also have asthma but, it’s always under control with my MCAS treatment and lifestyle changes. It doesn’t make me any higher risk than anyone else and I don’t need a shot just because I hold the diagnosis. Same with Pneumonia vaccines. My mother is 67 and was insistent that now she was older surely she must be high risk and “had” to have one. But pneumonia is caused by multiple things, bacteria, viruses, fungus. The Pneumonia vaccine only protects you from the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, and only 23 strains of it…there are 80. Now, while they say that the 23 they have put in the vaccine are what causes most cases of bacterial pneumonia, that’s 50% of cases, at best, and you are not protected against pneumonia caused by any other microbe, including viruses. People get hospital acquired pneumonia from E. Coli, Enterobacter, Staph, Klebsiella pneumoniae, etc. Also there is ventilator acquired pneumonia. Or pneumonia from having allergies and asthma and then living in a house with mold or an animal you’re allergic to. I could go on. I mean, if people know this and still want one that’s there prerogative but, they deserve to know it’s not “protection from all pneumonia”. And again, certain genotypes or immune systems will be prone to overreacting to any foreign substance, including vaccines.
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20200226interimfluve.html