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A Midwestern Doctor@MidwesternDoc · Nov 2, 2026

In 2006, the evening news told America something the CDC never wanted you to hear: Over 20 years, seniors' flu shot…

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A thread claiming that a 2006 CDC study found flu vaccination rates in seniors quadrupled over 20 years without reducing flu deaths, and that the NIH suppressed interviews about these findings. The poster argues vaccines cause the illnesses they target and that media coverage of vaccine safety decreased after pharmaceutical companies became major advertisers.

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  1. #1

    In 2006, the evening news told America something the CDC never wanted you to hear: Over 20 years, seniors' flu shot rates more than quadrupled. Their flu deaths didn't fall. They kept climbing. And when reporters asked to interview the government scientist behind the study, the NIH said no. 🧵

  2. #2

    Since then the data has only gotten worse. A Cleveland Clinic dataset of 53,402 employees found the flu shot actually increased the likelihood of getting the flu AND they found the same with COVID-19. Here's how vaccines cause the illnesses they target: midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-do-vacci…

  3. #3

    One of the study's co-authors, the only one who didn't work for the NIH: "We realized that we had incendiary materials." "Were you surprised?" "Astonished."

  4. #4

    The researchers expected to prove the shots worked, and adjusted for everything that could hide a benefit. "But no matter how they crunched the numbers, they got the same disappointing result. Flu shots have not reduced deaths among the elderly."

  5. #5

    Then they checked overseas: Australia, France, Canada and the UK. Same result.

  6. #6

    So what did the CDC do once it had this finding in hand?

  7. #7

    It kept the entire program running exactly as it was. Instead of admitting the shots weren't protecting seniors, the plan became vaccinating even more people, including children, in hopes of protecting the elderly indirectly.

  8. #8

    Annual flu shots have repeatedly been shown to provide minimal benefit, in part because they usually don't match the strain that's circulating, while causing side effects from minor to severe. I've met numerous healthcare workers who got Guillain-Barré syndrome from one.

  9. #9

    Back then, the evening news would still say so on air. Then Pharma became its biggest sponsor.

  10. #10

    Here's the complete 2006 broadcast:

  11. #11

    Did you know the news used to regularly air stories about people's lives being ruined by vaccines? That all changed after Clinton let Pharma buy out the media. Here I compiled 75 mind-blowing news segments they'd never air today. midwesterndoctor.com/p/vaccine-amne…

  12. #12

    The NIH blocked the interview, and the CDC kept the flu shot program running anyway. If you'd like to support my work to expose this, give me (@MidwesternDoc) a follow and visit me on Substack! midwesterndoctor.com