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Policy vs Evidence for Influenza Vaccines

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Tom Jefferson
Oct 25, 2024
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In 2006, emerging from a decade of Cochrane reviews of influenza vaccines, I was still trying to work out why these interventions were being pushed so hard despite clear evidence that their effects were, at best, slight. The evidence we had assembled came from randomised controlled trials, and it was consistent across age groups. However, the age group …

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