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Subject: Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot Under Scrutiny
Public Record
WHAT DOES THE DATA SHOW WHEN MODERNA’S MRNA FLU VACCINE IS
EVALUATED USING ABSOLUTE MEASURES OF BENEFIT AND RISK?
THIS WEEK, HOST DR. JOSEPH VARON, IMA PRESIDENT AND CHIEF
MEDICAL OFFICER, IS JOINED BY DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH, NICOLAS
HULSCHER, AND DR. JOHN CATANZARO TO EXAMINE THEIR NEW
REANALYSIS OF FDA CLINICAL TRIAL DATA FOR MODERNA’S MFLUSIVA
(MRNA-1010).
The flu shot is a product that runs on trust. You trust your doctor, your doctor trusts
the health authorities, and the authorities tell you to get one every fall. Nobody along
that chain shows you what the data says. Your chance of catching influenza in any
given year is 2 to 4% at most, and if you are 65, your chance of being hospitalized
with it is about one in a thousand. The vaccine on offer has historically prevented
fewer than half of the cases it targets, because manufacturers have to guess the
strains months ahead. And yet, half the country still decides to roll up their sleeves.
Even the flu death toll you hear every winter is softer than it sounds. Here is how it
gets counted, according to Dr. Peter McCullough: if a person tests positive for
influenza at any point during flu season, and if they die of anythingduring that time,
then they are officially tallied as a flu death. He cites estimates that only about 15% of
those people died of the flu itself; most died of a bacterial pneumonia that set in
afterward. That inflated number is what the television ads lean on, and what hospitals
cite when they tell staff to take the shot or lose their privileges. Dr. McCullough has
taken 40 flu shots for exactly that reason.
So when the FDA licensed an mRNA version of the flu shot in August, it got our
attention. Flu vaccination had all of these problems before anyone touched the
technology. Now it carries the same mRNA platform as the COVID-19 injections, and
that platform has already shown everyone how many ways a novel product can go
wrong. IMA urged caution the week it was approved, and Dr. Joseph Varon
had warned against rushing mRNA flu platforms more than a year before that.
Now the three authors of a new paper in the Journal of Independent Medicinehave re-
run the FDA’s own trial data as plain head counts: how many people had to get the
shot for one of them to be helped, and how many were harmed along the way. All
three join Dr. Varon to walk through what they found.
https://imahealth.org/modernas-mrna-flu-shot-under-scrutiny/
diana dreiss