Today on Trust The Science™, we've got a doozy.
Here's Dr. Vinay Prasad, a medical doctor and professor at UC San Francisco, with a new paper he co-authored in the New England Journal of Medicine:
I'll try to not weigh you down in jargon, but the following is helpful in explaining why Dr. Prasad and others wrote this paper against a 2021 study that was used to push vax mandates and boosters:
Using observational methods, Arbel et al. (Dec. 23, 2021, issue)' calculated an adjusted 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 among participants who received a first BNT162b2 vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) booster than among those who did not receive a booster. They found 65 Covid-19-associated deaths (reported as 0.16 per 100,000 persons per day) among participants in the booster group and 137 (reported as 2.98 per 100,000 persons per day) among those in the nonbooster group - a 94.6% difference.
Translation: Boosters reduced deaths by 94.6%. Great! Push the vax mandates!
But wait a second...
In a subsequent letter (March 10, 2022, issue), 2 Arbel et al. reported 441 deaths not related to Covid-19 in the booster group and 963 deaths not related to Covid-19 in the nonbooster group.
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The mortality not related to Covid-19 was calculated as (441/65)×0.16=1.09 per 100,000 persons per day in the booster group as compared with (963/137)×2.98=20.95 per 100,000 persons per day in the nonbooster group. This corresponds to a 94.8% lower mortality not related to Covid-19 among participants in the booster group and indicates a markedly lower incidence of adverse health outcomes in the booster group.
Translation: Not taking the booster caused a 0.2% lower mortality rate across all non-Covid-related deaths than those taking the booster.
Do you see the cherry picking?
Take it away, Bill Bye the Woke Guy!
Sen. Rand Paul summed it up quite nicely:
These people lied to you and you lost your relationships, loved ones, reputation, and jobs if you didn't go with the program. The FBI then colluded with Twitter and Facebook to keep it quiet.
No one has been held accountable.
