• The Cleveland Clinic released the results of their system-wide study on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine over the 2024-2025 season, covering over 53,400 employees. They tracked those employees who were vaccinated, which came to 43,857, or 82.1% of the total cohort, and the remaining 9,545 who did not get the flu shot.
  • As they explain, the results were…extremely poor.
  •  vaccinated employees were significantly more likely to get tested than unvaccinated ones. It stands to reason that those more scared of the flu would be more likely to get vaccinated, right? Except, they checked for that, and based on their statistical analysis, that’s not the reason why vaccinated employees were tested more frequently.
  • Put simply, vaccinated people got tested more frequently than unvaccinated people, because those who got vaccinated were more likely to get the flu. That’s not a misprint, they were more likely to get the flu. Here’s how their data charted out over time, showing that the cumulative incidence rate of positive flu tests was significantly higher among the vaccinated cohort.

Source:  outkick.com