Opinion: The Flu Vaccine is Being Oversold

The flu vaccine is being oversold – it’s not that effective – The Conversation (free)

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“The infection rate in adults drops from 2% per year to 1%. You could say that’s halved, but it effectively only drops by 1%. So this means that out of every 100 healthy adults vaccinated, 99 get no benefit against laboratory confirmed influenza”.