The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head pushed dubious MAHA strategies for dealing with the flu instead.

Amid a significant spike in influenza cases across the United States, Mehmet Oz, the current administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is downplaying the importance of flu vaccinations, suggesting to the public, wrongly, that this year’s shot is ineffective. Oz made the comments in an appearance on Newsmax last week. “Every year, there is a flu vaccine…

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  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This is key:

    A fact-check from Indian news site The Week notes that research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as multiple studies elsewhere, shows that “seasonal flu vaccines consistently reduce the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, intensive care admission, organ failure, and death, even in seasons when the vaccine is not a perfect match for circulating strains.”