Cochrane review shows RSV vaccines safe, effective

September 30, 2025

 

"A new Cochrane review demonstrates that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines are safe and effective in protecting vulnerable groups most at risk of serious illness, including older adults and infants.

 

The review was based on 14 clinical trials with more than 100,000 participants. The studies did not report RSV‐related hospitalization or intensive care unit (ICU) admission. 

 

Overall, studies showed vaccines were 77% effective against both RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease (pneumonia and bronchitis), and 67% effective in protecting against RSV-associated acute respiratory disease (common cold) in older adults. [emphasis added]

 

Studies of vaccination in pregnant women showed RSV F protein-based vaccines reduced the risk of their children needing medical care for RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease by 54%, reduced the babies’ chance of severe RSV-related disease by 74%, and lowered the risk of hospitalization by 54%."

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv/cochrane-review-shows-rsv-vaccines-safe-effective

 

 

Have these vaccines gone through the normal checks and balances or is it another case of "we say it is ok so just believe us"?

22 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Have these vaccines gone through the normal checks and balances or is it another case of "we say it is ok so just believe us"?

 

Reading difficulty?

 

"The review was based on 14 clinical trials with more than 100,000 participants"

 

 

> https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/is-rsv-more-severe-in-covid-vaccinated

 

> https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-is-causing-the-explosion-of

 

Please, no more of your anonymous anti-vax bloggers....

 

"A Midwestern doctor" -- yet another in the poster's endless repertoire of ANONYMOUS anti-vax bloggers of totally unknown credentials and credibility.

 

Real and credible sources on public health and medical matters don't hide beyond ANONYMOUS Substack blogs.... They publish their findings under their own names, often in peer reviewed medical journals.... But no, not this snake oil peddler.

 

--AI supported

 

Hmm... "The author has written in favor of unproven or controversial treatments."  That certainly sounds like a died-in-the-wool anti-vaxer.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

> https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/is-rsv-more-severe-in-covid-vaccinated

 

 

Another "venerable" source:

 

 

 

Well, he must be a respected expert on RSV illness and vaccines then!   

6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Please, no more of your anonymous anti-vax bloggers....

 

Please, no more of your vax propaganda....

Hey, your guy is actually famous!:   (but not in a good way....)

 

Predictable...

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miscellaneous_fake_news_websites

 

 

59 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Have these vaccines gone through the normal checks and balances or is it another case of "we say it is ok so just believe us"?

we can always trust the 'government' to do the right thing.

 

Get your agent orange  here  safely tested on thousands of US troops and millions of Vietnamese...despicable !!

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/May-7/agent-orange-settlement-180-million-vietnam-veterans

 

A class-action lawsuit was filed in 1979 on behalf of 2.4 million veterans exposed to Agent Orange, culminating in a surprise settlement five years later, with the seven large chemical companies that manufactured the herbicide agreeing to pay $180 million in compensation to the veterans or their children. Lawyers representing the veterans, in turn, dropped damage claims against these defendant companies.

The manufacturers had maintained the “government contractor” defense—that because they had been following government orders to produce Agent Orange, the government should be held liable. A few months after the settlement, the Justice Department refuted that claim, pinning the blame on the manufacturers’ “profit, not compulsion or patriotism.” In 1991, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Agent Orange Act of 1991, mandating that diseases associated with Agent Orange and other herbicides be treated as the result of wartime service, acknowledging responsibility on the part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

However, none of the above bills or settlements sought to protect or compensate the Vietnamese victims of Operation Ranch Hand. According to the Vietnamese government, as many as 400,000 Vietnamese people suffered death or permanent injury, while another 2 million may have suffered from illnesses brought on by Agent Orange. A class-action lawsuit brought by Vietnamese citizens in 2004 against more than 30 chemical companies claimed that the use of Agent Orange constituted a violation of international law, but that suit was rejected on final appeal in 2008 by the same U.S. District Judge who presided over the U.S. veterans’ lawsuit.

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

A new Cochrane review demonstrates that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines are safe and effective in protecting vulnerable groups most at risk of serious illness, including older adults and infants.

  

But we're gonna give them to everyone...  Whether you're at risk or not.

 

24 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

 

Do they list wikipedia?  It's gotten as fake as they come.

Several off-topic trolling and flame posts have been removed.

 

6 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

I have a strong feeling you 'identify' as someone healthy. I would have sympathy but your ilk ran off with the money you swindled off your supporters.

Best not to get drawn into personal jousting. 

 

Red is the messenger. And good for him.

 

There is no evidence that a pathogenic virus exists. So what are vaxxes for? Returning to the science will see us through this vaccine madness.

I've had two mild colds and one case of mild Covid in 18 years here.  I don't see a reason to be a pin-cushion to pad pharmaceutical corporation's revenue and profits spreadsheets.  But?  If you want the shots, get them if it makes you "feel safer."  Your money, your body.  I only draw the line where the pro-Big-Pharma crowd demands that the government forces me to take vaccinations. Eat healthy, get some sun or take vitamin D daily, exercise. 

Imho that is as effective as a shot.  

Go for it - "Safe and Effective!" 

20 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Reading difficulty?

 

"The review was based on 14 clinical trials with more than 100,000 participants"

 

 

Comprehension difficult for you? A vaccine is to go through trials, reviews, modifications etc.. This takes years not a few months.

19 hours ago, johng said:

we can always trust the 'government' to do the right thing.

 

Get your agent orange  here  safely tested on thousands of US troops and millions of Vietnamese...despicable !!

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/May-7/agent-orange-settlement-180-million-vietnam-veterans

 

A class-action lawsuit was filed in 1979 on behalf of 2.4 million veterans exposed to Agent Orange, culminating in a surprise settlement five years later, with the seven large chemical companies that manufactured the herbicide agreeing to pay $180 million in compensation to the veterans or their children. Lawyers representing the veterans, in turn, dropped damage claims against these defendant companies.

The manufacturers had maintained the “government contractor” defense—that because they had been following government orders to produce Agent Orange, the government should be held liable. A few months after the settlement, the Justice Department refuted that claim, pinning the blame on the manufacturers’ “profit, not compulsion or patriotism.” In 1991, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Agent Orange Act of 1991, mandating that diseases associated with Agent Orange and other herbicides be treated as the result of wartime service, acknowledging responsibility on the part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

However, none of the above bills or settlements sought to protect or compensate the Vietnamese victims of Operation Ranch Hand. According to the Vietnamese government, as many as 400,000 Vietnamese people suffered death or permanent injury, while another 2 million may have suffered from illnesses brought on by Agent Orange. A class-action lawsuit brought by Vietnamese citizens in 2004 against more than 30 chemical companies claimed that the use of Agent Orange constituted a violation of international law, but that suit was rejected on final appeal in 2008 by the same U.S. District Judge who presided over the U.S. veterans’ lawsuit.

The Government will always do the right thing. Trouble is it will be the right thing for them. If it is the right thing for the people as well that is a secondary issue.

19 hours ago, impulse said:

Do they list wikipedia?  It's gotten as fake as they come.

 

Wickedpedia?

 

Long co-opted.

 

Can ' truss it.

13 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

This takes years not a few months.

 

No need for long term safety tests   a few mice will do

then just    'really move at the speed of science'

 

 

20 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Well, he must be a respected expert on RSV illness and vaccines then! 

 Just wondering  what qualifies Mr Bill Gates then...

1 minute ago, johng said:

 

No need for long term safety tests   a few mice will do

then just    'really move at the speed of science'

 

 

Good joke. I assume you are joking

3 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Good joke. I assume you are joking

No scandalously and terribly  its not a joke at all !

Just now, johng said:

No scandalously and terribly  its not a joke at all !

Then the oversight is useless. A doctor who deals with vaccines was asked what the shortest period of a vaccine going to the market was. He replied the shortest was 7 years. Usually around 10 to 11 years is typical.

26 minutes ago, johng said:

 

No need for long term safety tests   a few mice will do

then just    'really move at the speed of science'

 

 

 

Another misleading nonsense report put forward by anti-vaxers, as explained below by Reuters:

 

The COVID vaccines, to be approved, needed to show that they helped prevent COVID illness in recipients, NOT that they prevented transmission of COVID... Though as it turned out, they did both, especially early in the pandemic.

 

Fact Check: Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants

 

February 12, 2024

 

"Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done. [emphasis added]

...

To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time."

 

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/preventing-transmission-never-required-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-2024-02-12/

 

Another useless fact check  trying to cover up for a rushed experimental concoction being forced upon an unsuspecting population...

Why did they try to suppress results for 75 years if there is nothing to hide ?   answer, they know what the results show  but in 75 years time anyone effected would be long gone.

Unfortunately for them (and the victims) the results are manifesting themself all over the world.

37 minutes ago, johng said:

Another useless fact check  trying to cover up for a rushed experimental concoction being forced upon an unsuspecting population...

 

For starters, this thread is about the RSV vaccine, not the COVID vaccine.

 

But as for your claims above, more documented false (and, as usual, unsourced) anti-vaxer propaganda claims:

 

Myths vs. Facts: Making Sense of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

 

August 13, 2021

...

MYTH: The COVID vaccines were not rigorously tested, which is why they have only emergency authorization approval and not full Food and Drug Administration approval. (Update: Pfizer’s vaccine received full FDA approval on August 19)

 

FACT: “Vaccine developers didn’t skip any testing steps, but conducted some of the steps on an overlapping schedule to gather data faster.”—Johns Hopkins Medicine

 

Assoumou: This is the most common question I get asked. I think there is a perception that things moved very fast, but we want to underscore that the technology being used now was being studied for a decade....

 

.Hamer: The development was more rapid than many other vaccines. But it used the same process of phase one and phase two trials following appropriate safety measures. Stage three trials were large-scale trials done rigorously with very clear outcome definitions. The safety measures and approaches taken are standard for clinical trials. They just did it more rapidly than usual."

 

Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/myths-vs-facts-covid-19-vaccine/

 

 

20 hours ago, connda said:

I've had two mild colds and one case of mild Covid in 18 years here.  I don't see a reason to be a pin-cushion to pad pharmaceutical corporation's revenue and profits spreadsheets.  But?  If you want the shots, get them if it makes you "feel safer."  Your money, your body.  I only draw the line where the pro-Big-Pharma crowd demands that the government forces me to take vaccinations. Eat healthy, get some sun or take vitamin D daily, exercise. 

Imho that is as effective as a shot.  

Go for it - "Safe and Effective!" 

Pretty near the mark there Sir.

 

I'd like to say just a little more. I am completely against giving the U/16s any vaccine. Don't care what their parents think, or how stupid they are.

 

I agree about food: Eat nutritious food, drink plenty of water (some with vit C), Exercise regularly; and appropriately. Toxins; be aware where, and what, they are, and steer clear. Get out into nature's beautiful garden. 

 

Stay away from negative people AMAP. But love (try) them all the same.