James Corbett gets everything wrong about the flu shot and COVID 19

James Corbett is another communicator of bad science and dangerous misinformation. The science doesn't lie, so check out the links below.

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHoxsSK_DXo

Comparing flu vaccination rates to COVID deaths per million by country:
https://data.oecd.org/healthca....re/influenza-vaccina
https://www.statista.com/stati....stics/1104709/corona
https://www.statista.com/chart..../16575/global-flu-im

Seroprevalence of COVID in Africa: https://science.sciencemag.org..../content/early/2020/

Seroprevalence of COVID in the U.S.: https://www.thelancet.com/jour....nals/lancet/article/

There is no conclusive evidence that flu vaccines increased the risk of severe H1N1 flu in 2009: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC28503

Flu shots do not increase risk of spontaneous abortions: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31540812/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23262941/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29630014/

Adverse effects related to flu vaccines have been extensively studied: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK190013/

No, we do not rely only on observational studies to determine vaccine effectiveness:
https://jamanetwork.com/journa....ls/jama/article-abst
https://jamanetwork.com/articl....e.aspx?articleid=193
https://www.thelancet.com/jour....nals/laninf/article/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccin....es-work/effectivenes

No, there is no correlation between COVID-19 and flu shots:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC73009
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC76726
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32842505/

No, there is also no correlation between flu shots and increased risk of other respiratory viruses: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28362642/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23748138/
https://academic.oup.com/cid/a....rticle/71/16/2285/58

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