Connecting the dots series
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Connecting the Dots
We have received many comments in the last few days, all of them adding something to the great puzzle of where all our money goes. We arbitrarily selected two comments on different posts that we think will give us some ideas of the cash's direction of travel and its value to the taxpayer.
Connecting yet more Dots
I beg all of you who were or will be offered an influenza vaccination to consider the content of this post when deciding whether to accept.
And more Dots………
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 …
The dots series
The dots series was started as a “download” i.e. leaving trace of all the work that was done by my colleagues and I on influenza vaccines. It’s a legacy thing, you dig?
The Dots go on…….
To recap what we have written so far. We have seen that good data do not support the idea that there is only one viral respiratory agent around, that its name is influenza (A or B) and that influenza causes mayhem around winter time every year.
Dotting the I in Influenza
In this last post of the dots series, we shall try to explain why influenza vaccines have played a prominent role in the previous two decades.