Moar studies
No, the vaccines never worked all that well against severe Covid
Also, they nearly DOUBLED the risk of coronavirus hospitalizations after the first dose; the figures come from huge and (until now) unnoticed British study
Also, they nearly DOUBLED the risk of coronavirus hospitalizations after the first dose; the figures come from huge and (until now) unnoticed British study
alexberenson.substack.com
It is the final defense for the Covid vaccines.
Politicians and public health bureaucrats repeat it endlessly:
the shots stop severe illness.
Sure, if you’re unlucky they may land you in bed for a day or two. And yes, you’ll still get Covid. But the jabs will keep you from DYING
of Covid. We pinky promise!
Vaccine advocates have repeated the mantra since last summer. In July 2021, for example, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
told CNN that 99.5 percent of coronavirus deaths happened in unvaccinated people. Five months later, President Biden infamously said unvaccinated people
faced “a winter of severe illness and death” and would overwhelm hospitals.
(Dec. 16, 2021. A lie then, a lie now)
But a peer-reviewed British
study covering 9.1 million people and almost 600,000 Covid infections in 2021 shows vaccine advocates badly overstated the effectiveness of the shots even last year, at the peak of their effectiveness.
By mid-2021, fully vaccinated people had a
higher risk of being infected with Covid, the study shows. They had only about 65 percent protection against hospitalization and death - after accounting for age, sex, and other risk factors.
Sixty-five percent protection is still better than nothing, of course. But it is far below the claims Murthy and others made - and continue to make.
Further, the period the researchers examined represented the
peak of vaccine protection, which declined over time and declined further with the Omicron variant, which evades vaccine-generated antibodies within months.
And the sixty-five percent figure likely substantially overstates the actual protection from the shots, because of an epidemiological phenomenon called “healthy vaccine user bias.”
Put simply, physicians often withhold shots from people who are extremely frail or near death. They fear that vaccine side effects might kill those patients and that the vaccines will be pointless in any case.
Using BMI categories, there is evidence of protection against severe COVID-19 in people with overweight or obesity who have been vaccinated, which was of a similar magnitude to that of people of healthy weight. Vaccine effectiveness was slightly lower in people with underweight, in whom vaccine...
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