Phoenix Home Care Caregiver Reports Evidence Shows Flu Shots May Not Be Effective For Elderly
Phoenix Care-To-Go CareGiver points to article on Flue Shots
A recent comprehensive review of clinical trials suggests that there has been LITTLE evidence to demonstrate the flu vaccines used in the past 40 years are safe to use to prevent flu effectively in people aged 65 years and over.
Ironically, elderly people are among the most vulnerable and they are in the priority group to receive flu vaccine as the medical industry and government health agencies keep telling them that flu vaccine is the best preventative against flu.
Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration in Rome, Italy and colleagues conducted a thorough search of studies based on previous vaccine trials. Of the 75 studies reviewed, the researchers were able to identify only one recent randomized controlled trial with "real" outcomes. All the other studies in the review except one were considered of low quality and open to bias, Wiley-Blackwell, the journal publisher says in a press release.
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