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CDC Data Reveals Extremely Low Efficacy For This Year’s Flu Vaccine As The Experts Fail Again

New reports show the shot was nearly useless against the dominant strain

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Ian Miller
Mar 19, 2026
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Thanks to a series of advancements within federal agencies, things are rapidly improving within the U.S. government’s leading public health agencies.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya now runs both the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the CD as interim director.

And Dr. Marty Makary is a huge upgrade at the FDA, someone who will put actual evidence-based medicine first.

However, the public health industrial complex remains the public health industrial complex, and if there’s one thing for certain about that industry it’s that there will always be recommendations for products that do not live up to expectations.

For years we heard from leading “experts” like Dr. Ashish Jha, who was the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, that it was vitally important to get both the flu vaccine and the COVID shot. And preferably at once, as he so eloquently put it.

“The good news is you can get both your flu shot and your COVID shot at the same time. It’s actually a good idea,” he said. “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms—one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.”

Anthony Fauci has made similar remarks, for example, when he said in a YouTube interview, “I think that that’s an important point to make too—that if I get the flu shot, I’m not just protecting myself but I’m also contributing to helping protect my family... and the general community.”

Well, the latest CDC estimate of the effectiveness of the flu shot have just been released, and boy oh boy, it’s ugly yet again.

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