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How Effective Are Vaccines Targeted To Respiratory Viruses?

And we see once again an important media talking point goes to die

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Ian Miller
Oct 30, 2024
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The combined efforts of the media and “expert” hive mind have created a singular acceptable public viewpoint in response to normal respiratory virus season: Get vaccinated, or else.

That sentiment was shared, simply and profoundly, by President Joe Biden, who told the country in 2021 that the “unvaccinated” would suffer a winter of severe illness and death if they didn’t do what they were told. While Biden’s words were proven laughably false a few short months later, the media and their public health partners have continued down the same path of universal vaccination regardless.

They’ve just expanded it to include every single respiratory virus, along with COVID.

But what does the evidence base actually say about the efficacy of vaccinations to stop COVID, flu, or other respiratory viruses? Is there actually a justification for this extremism, this universal messaging? Or, as with so many other COVID-era policies and mandates, is it an inexcusable overreach?

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