"Getting vaccinated every year is the best way to lower your chances of getting the flu." That is the declaration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its website's page dedicated to immunization for flu. The problem is that actual medical investigation instead indicates the shots are a dud when it comes to protecting people from flu.

The latest study showing this comes from the Cleveland Clinic. The results show a 27 percent higher rate of flu in the 2024-25 flu season among the Cleveland Clinic's almost 44,000 employees who took the flu shots mandated by the Cleveland Clinic compared to among its almost 10,000 employees who escaped the mandated shots via claiming medical or religious exemption. Alex Berenson provided the details in an April 8 article at his Unreported Truths. The study authors' conclusion that "We were unable to find that the influenza vaccine has been effective in preventing infection" Berenson aptly calls "a masterpiece of understatement."

One obvious outcome suggested by this study is that the Cleveland Clinic and other businesses should end their mandates that employees take flu shots.

Most people would think that a job of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), so long as it exists, would be to pull colossal failures like the flu shots off the market, or at least to warn people that the shots look like they are all risk and no benefit. However, as it has done with other spurious pharmaceutical products, HHS is acting as a flu shots promoter. It goes so far on its flu immunization page as to recommend that, with quite limited exceptions, people over six months old take the shots yearly.