Refreshing the Dots series

Answering some of our readers’ questions on influenza vaccines

A year ago, we published the Dots series based on our 35 years of scrutiny of the evidence for vaccines against influenza, which regularly pop up this time of year and are pushed as a must-have by governments and public health alike.

Here’s the archive of the 9 posts

Connecting the dots series

This year is no different, but we have received a few reader comments we would like to address.

A subscriber pointed us to a French post on X. We cannot trace it to a formal study, but this is what it says in our readers’ summarised translation:

“there are public statements from the French public health authorities that 17,600 people died from flu in France last winter, but this is the increase in all-cause mortality. Only 279 deaths were recorded with an established identification of the virus and defined as caused by the virus. 4,925 deaths had the virus mentioned as a contributing factor without necessarily confirming the identification of the virus - this wouldn’t be clear from the electronic record”.

It seems that someon…