Vaccines to prevent influenza in healthy adults | Cochrane Summaries

Why are governments around the world still recommending influenza vaccinations across the board when the largest retrospective study of the vaccine found that:

"100 people need to be vaccinated to avoid one set of influenza symptoms. Vaccine use did not affect the number of people hospitalised or working days lost but caused one case of Guillian-Barré syndrome (a major neurological condition leading to paralysis) for every one million vaccinations. Fifteen of the 36 trials were funded by vaccine companies and four had no funding declaration. Our results may be an optimistic estimate because company-sponsored influenza vaccines trials tend to produce results favorable to their products and some of the evidence comes from trials carried out in ideal viral circulation and matching conditions and because the harms evidence base is limited.."

How many billions of dollars need to be wasted? How many innocent lives must be lost or ruined before governments decide that their health policies regarding this vaccine are not based on science?

Vaccines to prevent influenza in healthy adults | Cochrane Summaries.