NHS Super-K flu jab tested on fourteen, clinics now doomed

Fourteen volunteers stayed well after the updated jab and that cancels the NHS winter

Dr. Petra Voidwell1 Sept 20261 min readShorts

A small study of fourteen people tested the new NHS flu vaccine with Super-K tweaks. Those who received it stayed healthy. Researchers say the success will empty clinics after the service's busiest summer.

...none of them reached for a tissue after we passed fourteen.

That is what a volunteer told me on Thursday as we wrapped the session.

I ran the numbers myself. Fourteen people took part and received the updated NHS flu vaccine or the prior version. The update is a set of small tweaks aimed at last year's Super-K strain.

Super-K is simply the flu that circulated last winter. The people who got the new mix stayed clear while the others did not. We doubt this is random and that is the careful way we put it.

Clear of flu means the NHS winter peak never arrives. Their busiest summer now has no sequel. Staff face empty clinics. Empty clinics let skills fade. Faded skills close the wards. Closed wards leave the nation without care for any illness. That is the path from a tweak in the jab to the end of organised medicine. We logged the result and went home.