Get jabbed, get infected: New flu vax study appears to validate RFK Jr

Get jabbed, get infected: New flu vaccine study appears to validate RFK Jr

The study, which has yet to be peer reviewed, was conducted by the Cleveland Clinic on its own employees

By Greg Piper

Less than 100 days into the second Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services’ newfound skepticism of vaccine claims under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems to be prescient, notwithstanding media hand-wringing.

The current flu vaccine, whose effectiveness is a tossup every year, in fact makes infection substantially more likely than not getting jabbed, according to the latest Cleveland Clinic study of its own employees. The study has yet to be peer-reviewed, which means it’s new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

Nearly 44,000 of its 53,000 employees for whom age and sex data were recorded received the flu vaccine during the 25-week study, a research feat made possible by the Cleveland Clinic’s free, mandatory vaccination for employees without a medical or religious exemption.

About 2% got infected, according to the Cleveland Clinic research team led by infectious diseases physician Nabin Shrestha, also a professor in its medical college.

“The cumulative incidence of influenza was similar for the vaccinated and unvaccinated states early” but “increased more rapidly” for the former as the study went on through March 26, eventually reaching negative effectiveness of 27%, the researchers found.

“Notably, this was a relatively young population, with a mean age of 42 years, and 75% were female,” the paper says. “About 20% had a clinical nursing job.”

While the vaccinated were “more likely to be tested than the unvaccinated on any given day,” it does not appear the vaccinated had a “higher propensity to get tested” but rather had a “higher number of infections itself,” they said.

The limitations of the study are that it misses infections diagnosed solely by home testing kits, it couldn’t compare “the risk of influenza-associated hospitalization or mortality, or to examine if the vaccine decreased severity of illness,” and the population was mostly “individuals who were healthy enough to be employed,” with few elderly and no children.

This isn’t just a fluke.

Real-world cohort study
Time-dependent analysis
Adjusted for age, sex, job role & location
Strong statistical significance

Bottom line: This year’s flu shot may have done more harm than good—at least for this population.

— Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi) April 7, 2025

The acclaimed medical center’s research has seesawed between undermining the public health establishment’s portrayal of COVID-19 vaccines as modern miracles with negligible adverse events and burying adverse events through selective presentation of data.

Shrestha’s team found then-new bivalent vaccines were only 30% effective against current strains and the chance of infection rose with each dose in December 2022.

Peer-reviewed journals rejected their followup study on the 2023-2024 formulation of mRNA vaccines against the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which found their “low level of protection” was offset by the higher risk of infection among the more-vaccinated in working-age adults.

This is despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s even earlier research, from November 2022, finding sub-50% absolute vaccine effectiveness from bivalents in every age group, worst in age 65 and up, and the strongest “relative” VE in recipients who stopped at the primary series of two mRNA doses and waited the longest between doses.

CDC researchers also found negative VE nearly a year earlier, in a peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association study, among unboosted adults compared to unvaccinated peers. Soon after the New York Health Department found negative VE from Pfizer’s COVID vaccine just six weeks after it took full effect in children 5-11, but buried it in a graph.

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