What was puzzling was that the researchers didn't disclose the COVID19 morbidity rates.
I mean, they HAD the data, right there, in their data set and their statistics package...so why didn't they produce the results? Inquiring minds wanna know...
I looked into backing out the COVID19 fatalities from their disclosure, but the way the researchers presented the results it's impossible to do...it's almost as if they worked overtime to present their non-COVID19 results in a way that obscured the COVID19 fatalities. Parenthetically, per the study although deaths associated with COVID-19 were excluded, causes of death were not assessed. It is possible that the algorithm used might have misclassified some deaths associated with COVID-19 because of lack of testing or because individual mortality reviews were not conducted.
In addition, if people not taking the shots didn't also get a flu shot, they were dropped from the study. Thus all people in this study either had the COVID19 shot OR were vaxxed for influenza. It'd be interesting to see how the non-influenza vaxxed folks fared.
“The study team, which included researchers from the CDC and health care groups across seven states, found the results while studying the safety of the three authorized COVID-19 vaccines.”
Which seven states? Did you catch that in the study? I didn’t.
This could make a big difference if the states were ones that have low vax rates but high obesity rates or states that have high drug overdose or murder rates.