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Did 23 Seniors Die After Receiving Flu Shots? Claim Twenty-three seniors died after receiving flu shots sold at pharmacies. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting True to the nature of most disinformation campaigns, reports painting vaccines as deadly continue to be regurgitated thanks to right-wing social media. Conspiracy theorists began swirling around an insert in 2013 listing the deaths of 23 seniors — out of nearly 16,000 — who took part in clinical trials involving the Fluzone high-dose flu vaccine. According to the document: No deaths were reported within 28 days post-vaccination. A total of 23 deaths were reported during the period Day 29–180 post-vaccination: (0.6 percent) among Fluzone High-Dose recipients and 7 (0.6 percent) among Fluzone 1 recipients. The majority of these participants had a medical history of cardiac, hepatic, neoplastic, renal, and/or respiratory diseases. No deaths were considered to be caused by vaccination. The blog Health Impact News published a post attacking the vaccine itself as a government marketing campaign abetted by retail chains like CVS and Walgreens. The post has been shared more than 23,000 times online. In reality, a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that between 2005 and 2014, flu vaccines prevented 40,000 deaths associated with the disease. According to the agency: Estimates from the study showed that the majority of the flu-associated deaths prevented—nearly 89 percent (88.9 percent) were in people 65 years of age and older. Next to older people, young children 6 months through 4 years of age benefitted most from flu vaccine in terms of the percentage of deaths averted. Children younger than 5 years old and adults 65 years of age and older are at high risk of serious flu complications and typically account for the majority of flu-associated deaths and have the highest flu-associated hospitalization rates. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die The CDC noted that the low point in this period was 2009, when the H1N1 virus (commonly referred to as the swine flu) originated in the U.S. The agency said: Researchers estimated that 222 deaths were prevented by vaccination that season. Study authors attributed this to the fact that 2009 monovalent pandemic vaccine did not become widely available until well after the peak of influenza illness had occurred. Flu activity during the pandemic was dominated by 2009 H1N1 virus circulation, with almost no seasonal viruses being detected during that time. In January 2021 conspiracy theorists pounced again onto a similar story, claiming that 23 seniors in Norway died within hours as a result of vaccines against COVID-19: As Reuters reported, the claims were, once again, taken out of context. Norway is vaccinating residents of care homes, including those with serious underlying diseases. On average, 400 people die each week in nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the Nordic country. Therefore, it is expected that some among this population would die from unrelated causes after receiving the vaccine. As of Jan 18, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health had investigated 13 of the 23 reported deaths, and had not concluded that the vaccines were to blame. Camilla Stoltenberg, the head of the agency, told a news conference: These are people who are very old, are frail and have serious diseases...It is not a given that this [the deaths] represents an overmortality or a causality. The Norwegian fact-checking outlet Faktisk further reported that 33 patients — out of about 48,000 in total — were reported, but not attributed to the vaccine. Update 7/22/2021, 10:47am: This article has been revamped and updated. You can review the original here. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks , Health / Medical Tagged covid-19 , flu vaccines , norway
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