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Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

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231 points cachecrab | 1 comments | 27 Jun 22 19:45 UTC | HN request time: 1.999s | source
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lukev ◴[27 Jun 22 21:16 UTC] No.31900915[source]▶
Lots of discussion in this thread about the accuracy of the implied claim "vaccination can prevent Alzheimers", but not a lot about the correct course of action.

Which seems to me to be, unambiguously, you should absolutely be religious about getting your flu shot every year. The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects (or at least, safer than the actual flu, which is the bar that needs to be cleared.)

And even if it hasn't been conclusively proven that vaccines can avert Alzheimer's, you're at least putting yourself in the best possible cohort, right? Anyone familiar with Bayes' Theorem should be absolutely on board with this.

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1. native_samples ◴[28 Jun 22 12:01 UTC] No.31906606[source]▶
"The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects"

The COVID vaccines are also "known" to be safe and with few side effects, by the sort of public health people who like to make such claims. That doesn't mean anything.

Here's the problem with flu vaccines. They do not correlate with any reduction in mortality attributed to flu. Every trial indicates effectiveness, yet despite hugely increased number of flu vaccines over the years, deaths due to flu do not move. A rational person should wonder what this implies about the reliability of vaccine trials.