Comments on: New Studies: Taking The Seasonal Flu Shot Increases Your Chance Of Catching The H1N1 Swine Flu http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/new-studies-taking-the-seasonal-flu-shot-increases-your-chance-of-catching-the-h1n1-swine-flu Are You Ready For The Bird Flu? - All Of The News And Information That You Need About The Coming Bird Flu Pandemic Tue, 01 May 2012 16:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Hagan http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/new-studies-taking-the-seasonal-flu-shot-increases-your-chance-of-catching-the-h1n1-swine-flu/comment-page-1#comment-1237 Daniel Hagan Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:15:19 +0000 http://thebirdflupandemic.com/?p=470#comment-1237 If you read the abstract for the study concerning vaccinated children, they make it clear that the study methodology does not establish causality. In other words, they are unable to determine if the vaccine increased the risk of hospitalization OR the children who were more likely to be hospitalized were more likely to receive the vaccine OR if there was some third factor that increased the likelihood of receiving a vaccine and also being hospitalized. As they say in the linked article, it's an interesting result that demands more rigorous study to establish what is actually going on. If you read the abstract for the study concerning vaccinated children, they make it clear that the study methodology does not establish causality. In other words, they are unable to determine if the vaccine increased the risk of hospitalization OR the children who were more likely to be hospitalized were more likely to receive the vaccine OR if there was some third factor that increased the likelihood of receiving a vaccine and also being hospitalized.

As they say in the linked article, it’s an interesting result that demands more rigorous study to establish what is actually going on.

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