Flu Vaccine in Pregnancy Offers Brief Protection of Babies New York Times
- “In a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study, researchers measured the efficacy of the flu vaccine on the unborn children of vaccinated pregnant women by comparing rates of disease and levels of antibodies in 1,026 infants born to vaccinated women and 1,023 controls born to unvaccinated mothers.”
- “The vaccine was about 86 percent effective until the babies were 8 weeks old. But between 8 and 24 weeks, its power dropped rapidly, and the effect of the vaccine became statistically insignificant.”
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Vitamin D probably better than vaccine for Influenza anyway
See also VitaminDWiki
- Overview Influenza and vitamin D
- Flu
- Viral infection reduced 90 percent with 2000 IU of vitamin D – Dec 2010
- Infectious diseases and vitamin D – update May 2015
- Adaptive immunity (cancer, viruses, autoimmune) and vitamin D – April 2016
- Vitamin D can probably augment or replace many vaccines – March 2015
- Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015