[gas_dr]

The studies are not meant to define a reduction in severe illness? Who wrote this crap. The absolute reduction in the number of cases in the non placebo arm by definition means there is an absolute reduction to severe disease.

Please tell me that you realize this. Please tell me that you are not believing that the vaccination stops mild disease but severe disease is the same.

[Meah]

Here are the source links for that claim. I will let you look at them an evaluate:
1. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?sh=444e90695247

[Meah]

I found this article intriguing and alarming, which is why I shared it. I did click the source links out of curiosity. Here are the links to sources used regarding vaccine trial definitions of “effective”:
1. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?sh=444e90695247

[catnipman]

“Who wrote this crap.”

The British Medical Journal did

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037

Article has a great chart that shows that NONE of the vaccine trials looked at whether their vaccine would result in:

1. Reduction in severe covid-19 (hospital admission, ICU, or death)

2. Interruption of transmission (person to person spread)