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Well done for posting this Hawky. I think you represent what a significant number of people in the community think. I'm not sure if it's the majority but articles like this are important for Health Officials desperate for us to be vaccinate and to placate the masses.Vaccines are typically less effective in the real-world than in clinical trials. But in data from Israel and the United Kingdom, both of whom have managed to vaccinate a large slice of their population, vaccine effectiveness appears to be matching that seen in clinical trials.
In Britain, Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine appears to be 88 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic infection in those aged over 80.
Israeli scientists are reporting a 92 per cent effectiveness rate overall – similar rates to those seen in clinical trials that initially stunned scientists.
“I find it surprising,” said Professor Simon Foote, director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.
“But it’s a nice surprise.”
“There is absolutely no doubt that people who have been vaccinated are substantially less likely to get symptomatic disease.
They are much less likely to end up in hospital. And they are probably much less likely to die of the disease.”
The first real-world data for COVID vaccines is in - and it’s really good news
The first real-world data for COVID-19 vaccines is in – and the vaccines’ effectiveness have once-again shot past scientists’ expectations.www.theage.com.au
Health Officials in Israel consented to their citizens being guinea pigs for Pfizer, with their data being collected, in return for getting early supply of vaccine. They've introduced strong coercive practices to make people vaccinate and some of their results are starting to be reported.
I'm disappointed that they didn't introduce therapeutics like HCQ, IVM + Zn to compare with the vaccines, as part of the study design.
There is an inherent bias towards showing the vaccine being effective and the way this trial is reported has major limitations only including 6 weeks of data, from 20th December until 1st Feb 2021, no residents in aged care being included, and over 730,000 excluded when their data could have made a significant difference to he results.
We designed this observational study to emulate a target trial of the causal effect of the BNT162b2 vaccine on Covid-19 outcomes. We considered three periods: days 14 through 20 after the first dose of vaccine, days 21 through 27 after the first dose (administration of the second dose was scheduled to occur on day 21 after the first dose), and day 7 after the second dose until the end of the follow-up.
During a mean follow-up of 15 days (interquartile range, 5 to 25), 10,561 infections were documented, of which 5996 (57%) were symptomatic Covid-19 illness, 369 required hospitalization, 229 were severe cases of Covid-19, and 41 resulted in death.
They report 9 of those deaths in the vaccinated group and 32 in the unvaccinated. However the study left out over 26,000 nursing home recipients of the injection. From reports around the world, a high number of deaths from the vaccine is happening in nursing homes. Real Word data compiled by Johns Hopkins University report a sharp increase in deaths from OCIVD after 20th December when vaccination started.
Israel: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile
Israel: What has been the impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)?
ourworldindata.org
Even though they may not have been able to match all of the 700,000 people they left out of the study they should still have reported on the same outcomes, with all the data available.
One of the reason the results were so surprising to researchers could have been because of bias and data manipulating by leaving out a significant number of vaccinated participants.
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