{"id":9210,"date":"2025-04-15T19:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9210"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:51:50","slug":"flawed-flu-vaccine-study-sparks-misinformation-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/15\/flawed-flu-vaccine-study-sparks-misinformation-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Flawed Flu Vaccine Study Sparks Misinformation Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/faustfiles\/115110?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-04-14&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-04-14&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremy Faust debunks viral claims of negative effectiveness in Cleveland Clinic report. <em>In a video originally published on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/insidemedicine.substack.com\/p\/why-that-negative-effectiveness-flu\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Inside Medicine, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside Medicine<\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>MedPage Today<em><em>\u00a0editor-in-chief\u00a0<\/em>Jeremy Faust takes aim at a widely circulated Cleveland Clinic preprint on flu vaccine effectiveness &#8212; one that was touted on\u00a0<\/em>Fox News<em>\u00a0as proof that this year&#8217;s flu shot made people more likely to get sick. Faust explains why the study is methodologically unsound, highlights overlooked biases like susceptible depletion, and makes the case for better public understanding of basic epidemiology.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Jeremy Faust debunks viral claims of negative effectiveness in Cleveland Clinic report. In a video originally published on\u00a0Inside Medicine,\u00a0MedPage Today\u00a0editor-in-chief\u00a0Jeremy Faust takes aim at a widely circulated Cleveland Clinic preprint on flu vaccine effectiveness &#8212; one that was touted on\u00a0Fox News\u00a0as proof that this year&#8217;s flu shot made people more likely to get sick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}