#509 Doc Malik: Flu vaccines for kids: the part nobody's telling you

#509 Doc Malik: Flu vaccines for kids: the part nobody's telling you

September 11, 2026 · 50 min · Episode 509

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Ahmad Malik discusses the flu vaccine for children, addressing misconceptions and the real risks involved.

Independent. Unfiltered. Yours. For the full episodes please subscribe to either: The paid Spotify subscription here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/docmalik/subscribe The paid Substack subscription here: https://docmalik.substack.com/subscribe Thank you to all the paid subscribers and those that left 5 star rating. In this episode we cover: I received two emails this week inviting my children to get the flu vaccine, at a school they no longer attend. It reminded me just how much I detest the annual flu vaccination campaign, especially for school children. I already wrote a Substack article on this, so in this episode I unpack all the propaganda and one way messaging that parents receive from GPs, hospitals, public health bodies, local health authorities, schools and the media. Everyone is pushing the flu vaccine, but using the government's own data, the real picture looks very different. Children have a less than 1 in 100,000 risk of being hospitalised and a less than 1 in 1,000,000 risk of dying from flu. Most serious complications happen in children under two or those with underlying health conditions, not in healthy school aged kids. I get into informed consent, the…

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