Posted on 10/28/2021 11:39:57 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The swedes just did a large vaccine study using 842,972 pairs of people (1.7 million total). each pair had one vaxxed, one unvaxxed. it’s currently a preprint for “the lancet.” you can grab it HERE.
this was a retrospective study, but one in which the matching of cohorts was pretty good which improves the evidence quality quite a bit. it’s not a full RCT, but it’s a lot better than most of what’s getting published right now.
Vaccines start off reasonably effective, but they fade very quickly. This has long been a criticism and a complaint about the shortness of the drug trials on which their approval was based and the elimination of their control groups to prevent long term study.
Given these longer term results, it seems clear why they (Pfizer) chose to run short trials and then eliminate the control groups after about 90 days. because that’s when things start to go off the rails.
The downslope in efficacy against symptomatic infection is just starting right where pfizer and moderna ended their trials and vaccinated the control groups to make future comparison impossible.
The evidence that vaccines fail to stop spread has been clear for some time and not even the CDC argues it anymore.
What this study added that was terribly interesting was data on the prevention of severe covid. and this too drops rapidly.
At around 90 days, drop in efficacy is becoming noticeable. it’s under 50% by 6 months. by 250 days, it looks to be about 25%.
Hospitalization and death dropped as well. Worst of all, it drops most in the most vulnerable. the people who most need protection get the most rapid fade/least efficacy.
The efficacy of these vaccines wanes VERY rapidly. you’d need to boost every 3 months to keep it high and every 6 to keep it about about 30% on symptomatic infection and 45% on hospital/death.
so you’re rebuying immunity every 3-6 months, taking the adverse event risk again, and using it to avoid an outcome (getting covid) that is not terribly dangerous for most and thus getting very little absolute risk reduction (detailed discussion here). This was already a bad bet for most under 50 and pretty much anyone without comorbidities.
But having to make the bet, over and over, just to stand still means that eventually, it’s a bad bet for anyone because once you get covid, you rarely get it again and when you do, it’s mild. acquired immunity from recovery is FAR superior to vaccinated immunity and looks to be actually sterilizing as well so you’ll stop being a spread vector.
You cannot make a case for boosters by looking at efficacy alone, especially when “50% VE” actually maps to “half of 1% for under 50’s or 1/10th of 1% or less if under 50 and healthy.”
It does not take a lot of side effects to swamp that, especially if you have to keep running the risk over and over to avoid what is basically a one time outcome.
There is also an argument that leaky vaccines are causing superspread while at the same time actually making the virus worse by inverting its evolutionary gradient.
If those are true, the fact that efficacy fades here is the best news we have. We need to stop boosting and let it run down so we stop breeding for hotter strains that make us all worse off. (even the vaxxed)
The simple fact is this: rushing vaccines of a brand new type never before used in humans (but known to be problematic in animals) was always a deeply bad idea.
The trials were short and rigged to mask fade and side effects while overstating efficacy. VE was used instead of absolute risk reduction, and cost/benefit was not even considered.
The immunity was supposed to be sterilizing. it’s not.
The effects were supposed to be strong. they aren’t.
The efficacy was supposed to be durable. it isn’t.
They were supposed to protect the most vulnerable. but that’s who they work least well on.
And yet the one note flute of public health keeps pushing and mandating them despite all these new learnings that run counter to all the assumptions they made when proposing this policy.
The CDC told us it would stop spread.
Getting probably the most important salient of all totally wrong really ought to lead to a policy reassessment, not a doubling down.
The adverse events are FAR in excess of any other vaccines approved in FDA history.
Having called this safe should lead to a massive search for what else you missed.
Is there even a cessation condition here? is there any data that would lead the FDA to rethink or the politicians and health agencies to stop these programs?
Because it looks to me like “more boosters!” is the answer to every question.
That’s not the sign of evidence based medicine.
There are a lot of additional details, charts, citations at original link
Proof it’s not a vaccine.
Real vaccines do not drop off this quick nor require boosters for the rest of your life.
Whoever wrote this summary seems pretty balanced; I don’t detect a conspiracy-monger here, just someone reporting what the study apparently found. It will be interesting to see how much publicity it gets when it’s published.
Tetanus requires boosters - every 10 years.
Ummm, pardon my weak understanding of efficacy but doesn’t negative efficacy mean from that point on, you would have been better to NOT get the vaccine?
It’s a mad world...
The severity of COVID-19 does not warrant the extreme response we are seeing.
Something is on.
+1
Just wait until they start giving it to little kids and mutations develop that are strong and smart enough to jump the most robust immune systems of our species ( healthy children)
Tetanus is a bacteria. Apples to oranges to try and compare it to a vaccine for a virus
The ‘negative percent efficacy’ as shown on the chart does require some sort of explanation.
Tetanus is a bacteria not a virus, and lives in soil and other environments.
It does not transmit human to human.
Thus it is an endemic enviro toxin.
Really no comparison to this airborne human transmissible bioweapon altered “ virus”….which bioweapon labs are still tinkering with
Correct. And any puncture injury usually dictate getting another Tetanus booster, regardless of the last time you received one, because of the bacterial nature of the wounds.
It’s pretty simple... Pfizer did a better marketing job than all the other vaccines... And Pfizer is the least effective of all the vaccines.
Now... Go out and get yourself a shot of J&J, Moderna or AstraZeneca... Those are the vaccines that actually work.
Serious question. So what is it then? Please dont say poison as it does seem to have a short term inoculative effect. Why does it not last longer? Looking for medical explanation in terms a non-medical professional can understand.
Actually they don’t since they all require booster shots now
I could be wrong, but I believe that with tetanus, you are being inoculated against the TOXIN produced by the bacteria, as well, and not even the bacteria. It is the toxin that kills you.
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