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Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    True or false - the people on the study were unvaccinated?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths




  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    True or false - the study itself shows the long term dangers of COVID post infection when unvaccinated?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Wow.

    You might as well argue that the study showed precisely the long term dangers of Covid post infection when living in the UK between March and November 2020. It shows that every bit as precisely as it shows the dangers of being unvaccinated.

    I'll just leave this here.

    Since vaccine records were unavailable for this study, the inclusion period was restricted to the period when no vaccines were available in the UK—before December 2020. Hence, the case cohort comprised patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between 16 March 2020 and 30 November 2020.

    If people feel that studies without access to the vaccine records prove the dangers of being unvaccinated, then who am I to argue with their feelings.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It proves the dangers of post covid infection when unvaccinated.

    This is LITERALLY what the study shows. It is not a matter of 'feeling'.

    You have resorted to word games and weasel words about 'feelings' because you know you cannot dispute what the study literally shows.

    The study showing increased all risks mortality post covid infection also establishes the real dangers of long covid - something which many posters on this forum have tried to dismiss or downplay.

    And you continue to blatantly ignore the cross referenced study showing reduction in such risks when vaccinated. So that is why - taken together - we speak of the dangers of being unvaccinated.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    It shows the long term risks of Covid infection, pre-vaccination. The control group is a similiarly matched uninfected cohort.

    It does not, nor do the authors they claim to, show that these dangers differ with vaccination. This is an impossibility without a vaccinated control group.

    To claim otherwise is patently absurd.

    Are you able to cite a single sentence in the study that claims this study proves the dangers of post covid infection when unvaccinated??!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The people in the study were unvaccinated. Post covid infection they had significant increase in all risks mortality. So that is quite literally what the study proved and no amount of word games can alter that.

    Nobody has said that specific study shows a difference. You are arguing against a strawman.

    Because you continually and blatantly ignore the cross referenced study showing protective benefit of vaccines against long term symptons post covid infection.

    Which is why it is valid and justified to cite the primary study as a piece of evidence on the risks of being unvaccinated.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Did they show that vaccinated people aren't subject to the same risks? If not then how can it show the 'dangers' of being unvaccinated when the same risks might also apply after vaccination? Also, it may not even apply for anyone anymore given the weaker variants and prior exposure that most people have.



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Nobody has said that specific study shows a difference. You are arguing against a strawman.

    Except for astrofool:

    so the researchers aren't really studying to see if there is an effect, they are studying to see how big of an effect it has and thus frame the data that way




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Bit of a red flag that you excerpted rather than linked to the post... Ah but then, you wouldn't have been able to cherry pick a statement out of context to misrepresent the other poster's comments, in a standard anti vax tactic.

    The post also contains this statement:

    But what we factually know today based on the studies, is that those who were unvaccinated and infected are susceptible to severe diseases post infection and thanks to the separate study, the vaccinated, then infected are less susceptible to severe diseases post infection.

    So I stand over all my comments in the previous post:

    Nobody has said that specific study shows a difference.

    And reject your deliberate attempt at deceptive misrepresentation.

    This is the link to the full post - I think readers can make up their own minds on whose version of events is truthful.


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    This is the link to the full post - I think readers can make up their own minds on whose version of events is truthful.

    Agreed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭walus


    An interesting episode with prof. Robert Clancy on immunology of mRNA vaccines. May be an interesting piece for those who are eager to understand how this technology actually works:

    With roughly 260 publications in his field, he is considered one of the most regarded immunologists in Australia.

    ”Where’s the revolution? Come on, people you’re letting me down!”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Goes through a lot of already disproven stuff then facepalms himself by pushing Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin (not in this video, but he was mentioned as the source for the Aussie politician who was ranting abut vaccines in their parliament) and pushes into big pharma dogwhistling.

    It's a pity because it comes over as "learned" and a lot of people will buy into it as it can seem true and reinforce their own opinions and there is good information there around how they're developing cancer treatments.

    Dr. Campbell has fallen a long way.



  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,532 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Ah yes, long retired professor Clancy


    "Newcastle University issued a statement in which it distanced itself from Clancy's views, mentioning also that the vice-chancellor had said the university did "not consider Robert Clancy a subject matter expert on COVID-19"

    And Nurse Campbell is arguably less so, but he likes making videos to spam his conspiracies



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭walus


    Wikipedia, some ‘solid’ research you have done.

    “An Australian immunologist says he has had “the worst 24 hours” of his life, after getting caught up in the Craig Kelly COVID-19 controversy.

    Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly was condemned by Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday for his “dangerous and irresponsible” Facebook comments on COVID-19.

    The outspoken MP was also calling for the use of unproven drugs to treat COVID-19, and sighted the work of University of Newcastle immunologist Professor Robert Clancy.

    Professor Clancy, told 6PR’s Liam Bartlett he does not agree with all of Mr Kelly’s views, but said the use of on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin is highly effective.

    “I have had the worst 24 hours of my life, I wanted to crawl under a rock,” he said.

    “I have never met Craig Kelly, I don’t know Craig Kelly, and a lot of his views I don’t understand.

    “The data is crystal clear … ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are of significant benefit when used early in the disease.”

    He said the controversial treatments have been used to “save lives” in other countries, but shouldn’t be used instead of a vaccine – rather together.”

    Very weak attempt to discredit a man with a very solid track record in his field.

    Yeah, Wikipedia knows best. Lol.

    ”Where’s the revolution? Come on, people you’re letting me down!”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Nurse Campbell. From Youtube university of "just asking questions" with a PhD in vaccine contrarianism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It isnt 'wikipedia' it is an actual official statement from the University referenced on wikipedia. To try to deflect this as 'wikipedia'is really desperate stuff.

    He discredited himself with ivermectin and other nonsense.

    You latch onto these cranks and expect people to be impressed by their credentials while running away from the crucial point that the overwhelming weight of expertise and credentials and studies back the consensus on covid and vaccines.

    So if you start an 'argument from authority' and then contrarians like Clancy are your champion - you have lost in a landslide.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭walus


    Desperate is your continuous editing of the post that has no relevance whatsoever.

    ”Where’s the revolution? Come on, people you’re letting me down!”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    If you dont think it is relevant why bother responding? So you disprove your own claim by your action.

    Its obvious you feel you have to respond as the point stuck home buy you cannot debate the point itself below so have to resort to these kind of baiting remarks...

    You latch onto these cranks and expect people to be impressed by their credentials while running away from the crucial point that the overwhelming weight of expertise and credentials and studies back the consensus on covid and vaccines.

    So if you start an 'argument from authority' and then contrarians like Clancy are your champion - you have lost in a landslide.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Not really. There are millions of doctors, medical professionals, physicians, vaccine experts and scientists in the world. Unfortunately a handful of them have, let's say, strange or controversial beliefs. I can post a video of a physician who believes there are magnets in the vaccines, a gynaecologist who claims vaccines are "poison", an osteopath who thinks there are "AI" microchips in the vaccines, a virologist and Nobel prize winner who believed Covid was man-made in a lab.

    It's not a coincidence we see these same individual experts (and nurses) crop up time and time again from those who share similar beliefs.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    At what stage do you think Nurse Campbell went from being an expert voice to be trusted to a crank with strange or controversial beliefs?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    I'm old enough to remember his doomer days when he was the darling of this forum and anyone pointing out he wasnt an MD was a right wing extremist. Now he has changed his position after reviewing the evidence and living through the past few years and he himself is the right wing extremist according to those same people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    He was never the Darling of the forum ! But he wasn't the promoter of rabid misinformation back then either . Must be lucrative for him somehow ...

    Post edited by Goldengirl on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    He's a nurse who's discovered he can get a lot more views by flirting with anti-vax quackery. It's very lucrative.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    He may not have been the darling of this forum, but he was lauded in plenty of places. Not so long ago Nurse Campbell was an expert voice to be magnified to ensure correct and up to date information is disseminated. Amazing how times change.

    Magnify the voice of experts: A key strategy for ensuring correct and up-to-date information is disseminated is to support the real experts to engage fully and regularly with the most popular information channels, even if these are more often frequented by a younger demographic. The way that United States academic Trevor Bedford has engaged with Twitter, and retired British nurse teacher John Campbell with YouTube during the current COVID-19 outbreak are excellent examples of this.

    https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SSHAP-Brief.Online-Information.COVID-19.pdf



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Yeah and Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters were once respected journalists, your point?

    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    I got my second booster last week (fifth dose - Pfizer with the adapted ba4-5) as high risk mid thirties.

    I’ve had covid twice (most recently 5 months ago,) I’ve never been so sick after a vaccine. The previous ones had no affect on me, two days after getting the booster last week I couldn’t get out bed. Migraines and muscle fatigue were awful, was literally in bed dying to go to bathroom but couldn’t get myself up (I did eventually before you ask.)

    Fairly awful experience, in hindsight I shouldn’t have bothered getting it. Having the virus itself is nowhere near as bad. Won’t be getting another booster, regardless of what my consultant said. Was out of action for at least 5 days



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    What booster did you get?

    I know some people were hit hard by Moderna v Pfizer but usually with Pfizer the side effects diminish with each dose.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    My first two doses were moderna. All others since then have been Pfizer. None of them previously made me sick at all.

    It was the “Pfizer and adapted BA4-5”



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    I was similar after the last booster, Pfizer , bivalent . Miserable with aches pains and fatigue for 48 hours and was starting to think maybe it was more than the booster side effects , when like someone had flicked a switch, I was better!

    Had Omicron end of 21 . And you had it you say 5 months before the booster . Wonder if this effect is your body mounting a strong response because of the Omicron immunity which has not been challenged since the infection?

    I am high risk also so would be good if that was it .



  • Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    Just follow up on this.

    I ended up in A+E this morning due to sharp chest pains and struggles with breathing throughout the night.

    Doctor put it down to Pericarditis as a result of the booster. Scary stuff, felt like I was having a heart attack this morning. Symptoms likely to persist for next two weeks

    im done with these vaccines now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Oh, really ?

    Poor you, get well soon !

    So what tests did they do on you to confirm that diagnosis ?



  • Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    ECG, echosound, xray and blood test. One of the tests suggested such.

    The doctor was very clear on the diagnosis and even stated they are extremely common at the moment with this latest patch of boosters.

    antibiotics prescribes to help with the inflammation with strong painkillers and sleeping tablets as sleep is key to recovery (haven’t slept well since the booster.)

    Pretty surreal experience. It’s one thing reading this stuff online and assuming it’s nonsense until it happens to you



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Is it a temporary thing? If the inflammation clears up, is is all back to normal?



  • Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    yes. Timelines vary though, the ED doctor stated my stats showed I was well above average fitness for someone my age so suggests it should clear up in a month or two.

    fingers crossed



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    That sounds encouraging, best of luck and get well soon!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    That certainly is surreal .

    Pericarditis resolves quicker than myocarditis and js the better one to get , if there is such a thing !

    Take it very easy...until they tell you to get moving again .

    I presume they will be checking an echo etc again for you ?

    Still vanishingly rare even if more awareness of it now .



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Still vanishingly rare even if more awareness of it now .

    Nice oxymoron.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Vaccine evolution developments, we'll need to be ready for the saRNA conspiracies. Also covers the points Bill Gates was making recently (with context) and the likelihood of Pfizer and Moderna (big pharma and small pharma) maintaining dominance.

    Would like to see the efficacy of the nasal vaccines, though unlikely to be much different if based off sinovac/pharm.

    tldr: lots of new tech coming for vaccines.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    We'd know how "vanishingly rare" they were if Pfizer would actually provide the post-market studies into these types of safety flags that they committed to as part of their EUAs. Of course these studies have been pushed out another 6 months recently.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    I've posted the relative risks before and how they're vastly in favour of the vaccine, but good analysis of recent claims to the contrary:

    interesting to see the increased ongoing risks of severe disease across a variety of ailments post infection showing up (and something we're used to here, labelling and then misreading a graph).

    Continues to blow holes in the "it was just a flu" and "vaccines are dangerous" crew.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Yes it is " vanishingly rare " , and yes , those studies would be taking that long , as they are, after all , post market studies , especially as the urgency appears to be over in the US, so research is no longer for' emergency use approval" .

    Can't see why you are complaining about that .

    I seem to remember similar posts griping about original vaccines and the subsequent dosing schedules, despite real world data which showed the safety overall with millions of doses worldwide , and in some cases the dangers, as with AstraZeneca which was swiftly restricted .

    Others complaining that these boosters did not have sufficient testing on humans .

    Now the complaint is the companies " are not producing data " quickly enough.

    Make up your mind what you want ... data tested on humans , under normal 3 to 6 month time frame comparisons , or more quick studies on engineered lab mice .

    And if you have any real proof ....not opinion or conjecture or anecdote ...that Covid vaccines, boosters or anything else , are causing a marked and significant increase in myocarditis and pericarditis or deaths in young people , please do post it , because up to now , you haven't .

    All I have seen and heard thus far is hearsay and misinformation.

    Here is the situation in the UK up to November last , and even then people here were claiming otherwise ...

    " As of 23 November 2022, the overall reporting rate across all age groups for myocarditis following vaccination with the monovalent Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was 10 reports per million doses; for pericarditis, it was 6 reports per million doses. For monovalent Moderna vaccine, the overall reporting rate for myocarditis was 14 reports per million doses; for pericarditis, it was 8 reports per million doses.

    In those aged under 18 years, the reported rate for heart inflammation (myocarditis and pericarditis) was 13 per million first doses and 8 per million second doses of the monovalent Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine; these are lower than the reporting rates seen in young adults. There is currently insufficient data to calculate the reporting rate for third/booster doses" .

    Nobody denies that vaccination carries a risk, especially to younger adult males, of developing myocarditis and pericarditis. The risks are clearly written on all the literature.

    But It is just that , so far anyway , it is such a small risk compared with everyday risk of Covid infection causing the same problem but worse , as to be considered low enough to be worth the risk/ benefit ratio , even for that age group 18 to 29 year old males.

    If as that poster claimed above , the doctor indeed had found it was becoming more common , there are immediate pathways of reporting what would be a severe adverse event of vaccination . And other doctors would be setting off that alarm as well , again, if that was truly the case . This triggers a review as with AstraZeneca and Janssen here and in other countries .

    The British Heart Foundation don't seem to be unduly concerned!

    One would think that they should be up in arms if the health of their nation were being put at risk daily .

    Do you really think it would not be reported and boosters stopped , here and elsewhere even before the safety study data was out , if it was in fact causing such a severe response ?

    Ok.. maybe YOU do . But that is going down a long , winding rabbit hole of CT , imo.

    It is not a REASONABLE belief given our experiences thus far with our ultra cautious vaccine authority, NIAC , here in Ireland . Safety has always been uppermost on their minds .

    So much so that at times , people have complained the rollout was too slow , why weren't they being given this and that vaccine like other countries, why wait for so long between doses ...you just have to look back over this thread to see those discussions and we were all impatient , myself included , at times .

    Now some people are choosing whether they need a booster or not . That is their choice and we are in a better place to do that , with more immunity and a less virulent variant . But everybody needs to have facts to make their decisions . And not just sensationalist op eds from trashy news sites or poor science review fora .

    Or maybe..

    Let's wait for the post bivalent booster studies to complete and be published and in the absence of real data not be arguing over something that may just be another red herring . Like so many others before ..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    the heart cells cannot be regenerated, that's why we don't get cancer of the heart.

    If you damage your heart in some way, that's gonna stay. Most mio/pericarditis are mild enough to allow for normal life, but they will impact life expectancy in the long run



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    And not to mention that the risk of myocarditis is substantially higher just after Covid



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,196 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    You are assuming damage = death of tissue . Like any other muscle when injured or infected it initially becomes inflamed . Most cases of myocarditis ( which is inflammation of the heart muscle ) do not lead to permanent scarring and resolve , although it can take time . . People are advised to rest and take it easy for a number of weeks/ months to allow this inflammation to settle completely in order to prevent any permanent damage .

    The biggest danger is people who continue exercising , because the age group in which it commonly occurs would be more active generally. Some cases are so mild that people only present when they find they cannot excercise as normal and they are found to have abnormal cardiac investigations.

    It is scarring that is permanent damage. As said before cases are rare , and permanent damage even rarer. However the risk is there and it is a serious risk however small .

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/myocarditis-covid-vaccine-research-long-term-effects-rcna55666

    Unfortunately while it is usually those that require hospitalisation for symptoms of breathlessness and chest pain that would have more severe illness that may lead to permanent damage, sometimes those that develop it may have had a mild illness to begin with but it becomes worse as time goes on .

    It is however misinformation to say that myocarditis leads to permanent cardiac muscle damage.. Also that it will all lead to reduction in life expectancy however mild ...Where have you read this because it has never been the case before now and it is just an assumption based on no evidence and incorrect information ..

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-myocarditis-covid19-vaccine-idUSL1N2S924L



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    According to doctors myocarditis create scars, thus permanent damage

    "In simple terms, myocarditis is a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle. This inflammation enlarges and weakens the heart, creates scar tissue and forces it to work harder to circulate blood and oxygen throughout the body."

    "there is no known treatment for viral myocarditis"

    https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/about-myocarditis/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭walus


    Safety of Pfizer vaccines appears to be batch dependent. Danish scientists examined rates of SAEs (severe adverse effects) between different BNT162b2 vaccine batches administered in Denmark (population 5.8 million) from 27 December 2020 to 11 January 2022.

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13998

    4.2% batches have been found to be responsible for 71% of severe adverse effects with the blue line representing batches for which the occurrence of SAE was 1 in 20 (!) doses. These batches are thought to be administered up to April 2021. Green line represents batches for which the occurrence of SAE was 1 in 1000. Age has been reported to be of no significance.

    With the safety of vaccines batch dependent a general statement that ‘vaccines were safe’ is not true. Some batches were safe, others were dangerous.

    Looks like over time the safety of vaccines improved (possibly by changing the formulation?) but the question mark remains if that negatively affected the efficacy.

    ”Where’s the revolution? Come on, people you’re letting me down!”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Is this a peer reviewed study?

    First important thing to note is that nowhere does the study state vaccines were unsafe. It warns of a potential safety signal that is all.

    So is pure anti vaxxer embellishment to make a statement of fact as to "vaccines were safe" is not true. It is your own invention, without foundation or merit. Of course an anti vaxxer shoots first and asks questions never. Only asks questions about the vaccines, never questions these studies. Your anti vax agenda here is obvious.

    This seems to be just a rehash of the VAERS nonsense, with failure to take into account the context of the rollouts.

    By that I suggest that when vaccines were initially rolled out, more VAERS reports were logged as this was a new medicine. This is a known effect.

    Or, different batches were given to different age groups, with differing level of background medical events?

    The study limitations noted:

    in the present study, the SAE case history of prior COVID-19 was unknown, and specific SAE types (MedDRA system organ class etc.), demographics of SAE cases, relationships of SAEs with consecutive vaccine doses in individuals cases, temporal trends in the observed batch-dependency of SAEs, and batch-dependent effects on vaccine effectiveness, respectively, were not examined

    The below article explains why this is a major limitation:

    Hickey and Rancourt found (their Figure S6, [2]) that the age factor could explain all the batch differences in deaths, and that increased variability in deaths per dose was likewise consistent with increasing median age, in the USA (VAERS). It was incorrect for Schmeling et al. to conclude as they did knowing that they had excluded the age consideration.

    https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=131&name=2023_07_01_does_the_analysis_of_schmeling_et_al_suggest_a_batch_dependent_safety_signal_for_the_bnt162b2_mrna_covid_19_vaccine

    Post edited by odyssey06 on

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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