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JohnS's avatar

I don’t understand why people think they can draw meaningful conclusions about the benefits of the covid vaccines by using observational data.

For example, a study done in Israel claimed a 90% reduction in fatalities by taking the covid booster. The raw data showed a 94.6 % reduction of covid deaths in the vaccinated arm. Looks impressive! The authors of the study left out an important detail.

Tracy B. Høeg, Ram Duriseti, and Vinay Prasad discovered that the data from that study showed the NON covid death rate in the vaccinated was also 94.8% lower. When you read the study, you think the vaccines are a miracle. But when you see the full picture, it looks like the vaccines are useless at best. This is far from the only example showing an extreme healthy vaccination bias.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683

Observational studies showing benefits for the covid vaccines are meaningless. The machine will never stop trying to convince the public how great these vaccines are. The people have heard so much BS they are growing more skeptical.

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medstudent's avatar

good start... but you guys seem far to generous... this paper seems like a whitwesh to try to justify vaccine use/mandates... I think you should focus on why the vax effects were likely way overstated and why the paper should have never been published as evidence of yet more corruption and heathcare malpractice during covid era

oh and one small nitpick: testing of asympt people was never a good idea. this bucks long standing resp virus best practice (see pandemic planner)

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