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In reply to the discussion: Eight Hospital Employees Fired For Refusing Flu Vaccines [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)Not known for being the hotbed of woo thinking, unlike some posters here.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2012-2013.htm
Scientists continue to work on better ways to design, conduct and evaluate non-randomized (i.e., observational) studies to assess how well flu vaccines work.CDC has been working with researchers at universities and hospitals since the 2003-2004 influenza season to estimate how well influenza vaccine works through observational studies using laboratory-confirmed influenza as the outcome. These studies currently use RT-PCR confirmed medically-attended influenza virus infections as a specific outcome. CDCs studies are conducted in five sites across the United States to gather more representative data. To assess how well the vaccine works across different age groups, CDCs studies of vaccine effects have included all people aged 6 months and older recommended at that time for an annual influenza vaccination. Similar studies are being done in Australia, Canada and Europe.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
Seems the CDC has scientific evidence it does work, and I'll believe them.