Ineffectiveness is the message

Pork-shill pulls one tiny footnote and ignores all these primary article highlights:

-The pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) – administered to those aged over 65 – may not be as effective as hoped

-duration of protection from the vaccine is shorter than previously estimated

-Vaccine effectiveness falls significantly after one year following vaccination

-although coverage has gone up there has been no fall in non-bacteraemic pneumonia.

-disappointment because though no-one knew it would prevent pneumonia, they had hoped that it would (really?)

-the Department of Health seems to be getting less enthusiastic about it all the time.

-the argument for using the polysaccharide vaccine in adults is getting weaker all the time.