“This year’s flu vaccine is basically worthless “
Actually no. It was effective against A & B which were the most prevalent strains. There was just a strain outside the vaccine that became active. And the vaccine was still 20+% effective against the new strain.
Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All
A VERY small sample. The link contains an actual interview with one of the study's researchers.
"So the NIH launched an effort to do “the” definitive study that would actually prove, for the first time, once and for all, that flu shots were beneficial to the elderly. The government would gather some of the brightest scientific minds for the research, and adjust for all kinds of factors that could be masking that presumed benefit.But when they finished, no matter how they crunched the numbers, the data kept telling the same story: flu shots were of no benefit to the elderly. Quite the opposite.
The death rate had increased markedly since widespread flu vaccination among older Americans. The scientists finally had to acknowledge that decades of public health thought had been mistaken.
The flu shot is faux medicine. No other country in the world pushes the flu shot on the elderly.