Offering a jab?
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I do have COPD though, which is why I was sent the letter....(Stage 2)
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Then it's worth finding out if that makes a difference. Although it won't alter the lack of science underpinning the evidence presented. And I'm not sure that results from people in good health makes the case any stronger for use with ill patients. Depends on each case I suppose.
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If it doesn't harm me, I probably should have it
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All medicine is a personal decision and it all comes with risk (even when it's claimed it doesn't sometimes). Only you can weigh those risks. I'm just happy you'll get to make a more informed decision than before - whatever your choice. :)
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have no idea why you are saying this to me,my criticism was of you not him and as twitter is a public forum where casual observers may take your selective study and apply it to themselves I wished to point out how dangerous this could be.
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I accept your point about this being a public forum. I'll consider how I present such evidence in future but present it I still shall, because the danger is relative imho. Relative to NHS's blind promotion of flu vaccine to all & sundry, regardless of lack of scientific evidence.
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Key word there being 'scientific'. No matter what these studies show, or even the empirical reviews of them, when a similar amount of studies remain selectively hidden, it undermines the findings of those we can see. It frankly allows for scientific fraud.https://twitter.com/C7RKY/status/1026110708294012928 …
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Cochrane has some questions to answer over its recent HPV vaccine review it seems, but they've always struck me as relatively objective in reviewing the studies they can see. Even that poses questions re some NHS recommendations, let alone what unpublished studies might also add.
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That somebody with COPD for example has cause to avoid catching the flu is obvious. Whether or not the flu vaccine will help them achieve that is an entirely other question. One to which we have no scientific answer. Just 6 selectively published studies, from 14+ years ago.
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Is it just flu vaccine that you have issue with? How do feel about, say, polio or smallpox vaccinations? Do you think they are effective?
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Not at all. My concerns about lack of scientific underpinnings extend across the range of pharmaceutical interventions. Not limited to vaccines, but the flu jab is a regular discussion point for obvious reasons.
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