Turns out that 4 out of 5 Americans did not receive the H1N1 vaccine. Some of these people would have had severe allergies to one of the ingredients. However, it appears that most simply chose not to get it.

According to CDC statistics, 55 million people became ill from swine flu infections. (This number is based on reporting which did not require testing to verify the presence of an H1N1 infection.) As of this date, only 11,160 people have died from the virus.

Given that it is flu season and those with influenza-like disease were assumed to be swine flu, we cannot know if the statistics on infections are high, low or accurate. We also do not know how often a vaccinated individual still got H1N1, so we have no idea how effective the vaccine was.

With every vaccine there is a known failure rate – but that is not being tracked for swine flu.

If the deaths reported by the CDC are 100 per cent accurate, death rates are less than 1/3 of the normal rates for a full flu season. There is still time for those numbers to increase – but it would appear that H1N1 is less lethal than we have been led to believe.

Keep in mind that Australia went through their flu season and coped with H1N1 completely without vaccine; their vaccination campaign started in September, after flu season was over.

Australia has had 1,720 cases of swine flu per million of population, and deaths per million is pegged at 8.73. Estimates of the US infection rate is 375 per million, while the death rate is about 35 per million. This means the US has a lower infection rate than Australia (which could indicate the vaccine is working) but a higher death rate (which would indicate it is not).

Source: Natural News; FluCount.org; CDC