A major prospective cohort study from the Cleveland Clinic has delivered a direct challenge to prevailing public health dogma: this season’s influenza vaccine was not just ineffective—it was associated with a statistically significant increase in risk of infection.

Among 53,402 working-age healthcare employees tracked over the 2024–2025 respiratory viral season, those who received the flu vaccine had a 27% higher risk of contracting laboratory-confirmed influenza compared to those who remained unvaccinated. The authors calculated a vaccine effectiveness of –26.9%, meaning the vaccinated were significantly more likely to become infected.

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     Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Dec 04, 2024
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

For the past three years I have skipped the influenza vaccine and have noticed progressively fewer viral upper respiratory tract illnesses or common colds. In decades prior I had taken forty flu shots as requirements in medical school, residency, fellowship, and medical staff. Could the flu shot weaken or misdirect the immune system on a regular basis?

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     by Children’s Health Defense Team, December 20, 2024
NPR reported:

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID-19, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.

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     by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., November 5, 2024
A New Jersey nurse sued her employer for refusing to grant her request for a religious exemption from the hospital’s flu vaccine mandate.

Alexandra Clark, a behavioral health nurse at Saint Clare’s Health in Denville, filed the complaint last month after the hospital emailed her saying it wasn’t accepting religious exemptions for the 2024 flu season.

The denial was an abrupt policy shift. Clark — a devout Catholic who has worked for Saint Clare’s Health since December 2023 — previously was granted a religious exemption from the hospital’s flu vaccine mandate.

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     by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., November 4, 2024
The number of healthcare workers receiving COVID-19 and flu vaccines declined during the 2023-24 cold and flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Only 15.3% of acute hospital workers and 10.5% of nursing home personnel received a COVID-19 vaccine during the 2023-24 season — down from 17.8% and 22.8% respectively, the CDC said in its Oct. 31 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Based on data from the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network, flu vaccine rates for the same healthcare worker groups were higher than COVID-19 vaccine rates — 80.7% for acute care hospital personnel and 45.4% for nursing home personnel.

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