@BobbyGottfried @RedElder7@woodypaige “Additionally, there are significant statistical incompatibilities between official estimates and national vital statistics data. Compounding these problems is a marketing of fear—a CDC communications strategy in which medical experts "predict dire outcomes" during flu seasons."
@BobbyGottfried @RedElder7@woodypaige "US data on influenza deaths are false and misleading. The .. (CDC) acknowledges a difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms interchangeably.”
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@RedElder7 @BobbyGottfried @woodypaige The flu shot is not very effective. Doesn’t prevent transmission. And this year you can get the flu mist, which sheds and can most certainly give you the flu.
@OHPediatricians non-condescending discussion can demonstrate the importance you place on appropriate immunizations, focuses parents’ attention on the unneces- sary risk for which they are accepting responsibility, and may in some instances induce a wavering parent to accept your recommendations.