Why Do So Many People Get Sick After the Flu Shot?
This report explores why that happens—and what really happens inside the body after a vaccine.
The following information is based on a report originally published by A Midwestern Doctor. Key details have been streamlined and editorialized for clarity and impact. Read the original report here.
How many times have you heard someone say: “I got the flu shot, and I still got the flu anyway”?
Bill Maher says he once got the flu shot and “immediately” came down with the flu.
Lara Trump’s mother had an even worse experience. As a nurse, she got the flu shot every year—and “every time [she’d] ever gotten it, [she’d] get the flu immediately after it.”
Now, she doesn’t get it anymore.
Why do so many people get sick after the flu shot?
This report explores why that happens—and what really happens inside the body right after a vaccine.
For decades, vaccines have been marketed as “safe and effective.”
No questions. Nothing else to consider. Safe and effective. Full stop.
But a mountain of buried medical research and endless reports from the vaccine-injured show a very different pattern—one that has repeated for more than a century.
In disease after disease, across multiple countries and multiple eras, vaccines have a weird habit of triggering or worsening the very illnesses they are supposed to be preventing.
Strange.
This occurrence isn’t fringe. It’s documented, replicated, and historically well known.
But millions of people—doctors, teachers, parents, friends—pretend it isn’t.
And even when they do offer a protective effect for some disease, they can leave your immune system weakened and vulnerable to other infections that can end up killing you. Just look at what happened in Guinea-Bissau.
This information comes from the work of medical researcher A Midwestern Doctor. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
Why Do Vaccines Cause the Illnesses They Prevent?
People often report getting sick right after vaccines. Some people even explain it away by saying, “That means it’s working.”
The flu shot is probably the most common example. Countless healthy people void of any flu symptoms get the flu shot and then come down with the flu days later.
Doctors always give the same answer. “It’s a coincidence,” or, “The vaccine can’t do that.”
But early medical literature from the 1900s documented this exact pattern across multiple vaccines and concluded it was not random.
It’s a predictable outcome of immune dysfunction caused by vaccination.
And yet we continue to vaccinate en masse, mandate vaccines, and pretend this predictable outcome isn’t happening.
COVID made this impossible to ignore.
Thousands of people became symptomatic immediately after taking the vaccine.
Some had mild infections turn severe. Some landed in the ICU. Some died.
And adverse event data revealed something stunning.
Right after the early surge of cardiac deaths, the most common cause of death reported after COVID vaccination was COVID itself.
National case curves also showed a strange pattern: after every vaccination campaign, COVID cases surged.
The more doses rolled out, the sharper the spike.
What happened to stopping the spread?
So what makes this happen?
Vaccines force the immune system to concentrate heavily on a single antigen. But the immune system has limited resources.
When it becomes hyper-focused in one direction, it becomes weaker everywhere else.
That opens the door for things that we don’t want to happen:
• Viral rebound
• Reinfection
• Latent infection reactivation
• Worsening illness
• Severe disease progression
This phenomenon is widely documented, and it has a name.
The Original Antigenic Sin (OAS).
OAS means your immune system becomes “imprinted” by the first version of a virus it encounters.
Then, when a new strain appears, your immune system doesn’t adapt—it sticks to the old program it was trained on.
Studies from 2009–2013 have shown:
• Higher infection risk after flu vaccines
• Children hospitalized at dramatically higher rates
• Influenza-vaccinated people developing other respiratory viruses
• Viral loads up to 100x higher
The immune system wasn’t strengthened. It was misdirected.
And that right there has consequences.
OAS alone flips the “safe and effective” slogan on its head. But the historical data gets even more explosive.
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COVID vaccination produced the most definitive proof of OAS in modern history.
The Cleveland Clinic followed more than 51,000 people and found a stunning dose-response curve. The more COVID shots someone received, the more likely they were to get COVID.
Oops!
One shot → some risk.
Two shots → more risk.
Three shots → even more risk.
Four shots → the highest risk of all.
This study wasn’t small. It was one of the largest observational vaccine-effectiveness datasets ever published—and it aligned perfectly with generations of suppressed vaccine history.
But OAS isn’t the only problem. Another mechanism is off-target immune suppression.
This happens when the immune system becomes so focused on the vaccine antigen that it temporarily loses control of other pathogens hiding in the body.
Which isn’t rare—many of us have other pathogens hiding inside our bodies.
This explains the worldwide eruption of shingles after COVID vaccination.
Shingles appears when the immune system loses control of dormant herpes zoster.
After vaccination campaigns, severe shingles cases—including rare neurological forms—skyrocketed across age groups.
Pfizer’s internal documents, forced into public view by court order, listed a wide range of shingles cases.
Mild, severe, rare, and even neurological. A little bit of everything.
And just months later, Pfizer and Moderna announced mRNA shingles vaccines.
How convenient! A problem created by vaccination became the justification for new vaccination—a feedback loop seen repeatedly in vaccine history. And in the medical industry in general.
The same thing occurred with Lyme disease. Vaccination often triggers flares of previously controlled infections. In 2002, a Lyme disease vaccine was pulled after similar patterns caused widespread injury.
Now we get to the most alarming historical pattern of all: disease provocation. That’s when vaccines activate dormant infections or accelerate mild infections into severe ones.
Disease provocation was widely documented between 1890 and the 1960s.
Examples included:
• Tuberculosis activation after the live tuberculosis vaccine
• Malaria relapse after anti-rabies vaccination
• Trench fever resurgence after typhoid vaccination
• Typhoid outbreaks triggered by mass typhoid vaccines
In many cases, outbreaks worsened specifically because vaccines were rolled out during them.
Typhoid fever produced some of the clearest historical examples.
Multiple papers from 1915–1950 documented that typhoid vaccination during outbreaks triggered:
• Immediate typhoid cases after injection
• Latent infections becoming active
• Severe disease progression
• Higher death rates
In some outbreaks, people vaccinated during active transmission got sick or died at much higher rates than the unvaccinated.
Researchers concluded that vaccination during infection compressed the incubation period and pushed the illness into a more deadly form.
But we still keep doing it… It’s absolutely shocking.
This pattern has repeated across different diseases, different countries, and different eras. But nowhere was it more undeniable than with poliomyelitis—or polio.
Throughout the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, paralytic polio cases routinely appeared after injections of diphtheria, pertussis, or tetanus vaccines.
And most shockingly, the paralysis almost always occurred in the same limb that was vaccinated.
This wasn’t theory. This was documented case by case, year after year.
But most people have no idea.
The polio provocation data is the most explosive chapter in vaccine history—and it was erased.
Arm yourself with this knowledge so you’re prepared the next time someone says, “What about the polio vaccine?” when trying to argue for vaccines.
Why Do Vaccines Cause the Illnesses They Prevent?
At the time, medical journals published repeated confirmations:
• Up to 13% of paralytic polio cases were directly triggered by prior vaccination
• Vaccinated children were 4x more likely to develop paralysis
• Symptoms began 8–17 days after injection
• The injected limb was paralyzed far more often than chance could explain
Public health officials admitted this privately. But they buried it publicly to protect vaccination programs.
And these facts largely remained buried still today.
It’s time to uncover the truth.
The explanation they eventually offered—that needles damaged tissue and allowed poliovirus to reach nerves—didn’t fit the data.
Why were aluminum-containing vaccines more provocative?
Why were combination vaccines worse?
Why did disease provocation match immune suppression patterns seen in other illnesses?
These are immune-pattern signatures, not mechanical injuries.
And the same thing happened decades later in India, where 491,000 children developed polio-like paralysis following aggressive vaccination campaigns with a little help from Bill Gates.
491,000 children! That is so unbelievably tragic.
When you connect all the dots, one conclusion emerges.
The immune system is not unlimited. It cannot be pushed—or poked—endlessly without consequences.
Vaccines demand intense immune focus—and when the immune system is redirected, something else gives.
Dormant viruses reactivate. Chronic infections flare. Mismatched viruses overwhelm the immune system. Disease severity increases. Paralysis can occur in injected limbs.
This is not “anti-vax.” This is immunology—documented for more than 100 years. This literally is science.
The reason this history keeps repeating is as simple as it is disturbing.
Public health built its reputation on the mythology that vaccines must always work and can never cause harm. Admitting the downside would undermine everything.
So instead of acknowledging immune trade-offs, they silence them.
Instead of studying disease provocation, they deny it.
Instead of updating their models, they double down on old beliefs.
Instead of being honest about the risks, they hide them.
Instead of supporting those who experience harm, they ignore them.
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During COVID, this mindset went into overdrive. Pretty much everything that could have been done wrong was done wrong.
Vaccinate during infection. Vaccinate without testing. Give boosters every few months. Universal mandates—no individualized care. Zero discussion of immune imprinting or suppression.
And so the results were completely predictable. History already gave us this roadmap! More than once.
Spikes in infection. Reinfection cycles. Shingles explosions. Worsened disease in certain groups. Failed promises of sterilizing immunity. And immune systems pushed in unsustainable directions.
Nothing good came from this. Nothing at all.
The earliest vaccines were deployed in eras with no antibiotics, poor sanitation, and deadly epidemics. Under those conditions, even crude tools were sometimes better than nothing.
But the world has changed while the mindset has stayed frozen in time. Instead of rethinking, public health became more dogmatic. Instead of learning from past vaccine failures, they were erased.
This has left the public blind to risks that earlier generations of scientists openly discussed.
Today, we face rising chronic illness, higher rates of autoimmune diseases and immune system dysfunction, and unexplained post-infection syndromes.
Is this solely due to vaccines? No, probably not.
But ignoring the immune consequences of aggressive, repeated, immune-disrupting vaccination campaigns means we’re missing a major piece of the puzzle.
And millions of people are living with the consequences of decisions “science” wasn’t allowed to question.
We can’t keep doing this.
With the dramatic increase in the number of recommended childhood vaccines, don’t you think it’s important we understand what we’re doing to our children?
The evidence is abundantly clear.
While vaccines can protect, they also:
• Suppress immunity
• Redirect immune function
• Provoke disease
• Activate latent infections
• Increase susceptibility to mismatched strains
• Cause paralysis
• Trigger outbreaks during pandemics
That’s not what most people knowingly sign themselves and their kids up for. But it’s exactly what they’re doing.
These trade-offs have been documented for over a century. But here we are.
If we want a healthier society, we must face immune reality, not immune ideology.
The immune system is not a toy. It is not infinite. And it does not behave the way vaccine marketing claims it does.
Marketing isn’t science. Profit over people isn’t health care.
Understanding vaccine-induced immune suppression, immune imprinting, and disease provocation is not “anti-vax.”
It’s the only way to prevent repeating the same disasters that have been happening for more than 130 years.
Are we finally going to break the cycle?
Thanks for reading! This information was based on a report originally published by A Midwestern Doctor. Key details were streamlined and editorialized for clarity and impact. Read the original report here.
For a deeper dive into what modern medicine has overlooked—or intentionally buried—check out these other eye-opening reports by A Midwestern Doctor:
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My paycheck was held up until I take the 1976 Swine flu shot. I was in the Marines and on deployment to Okinawa at the time. Felt like crap afterwards and determined to to never, ever, accept a vaccine of any kind. So when the Covid scam rolled around I knew better. In fact, covid woke me up to a whole lot of shit stuff our government does. "Become Ungovernable. Do Not Comply and make yourself hard to kill" has become my motto.
Vaccines are far from safe and effective. What’s sad is that most of vaccines—now even flu shots—affect children. Here’s two guides for any parents or grandparents out there:
1. The comprehensive guide on vaccine harm: https://unorthodoxy.gumroad.com/l/vaccineharmguide
2. Severe reactions that parents need to look out for—and what’s to do, like document, etc: https://unorthodoxy.gumroad.com/l/vaccinereactions
If you’re going to vaccinate, at least be truly informed!