FDA Pfizer COVID vaccine analysis

FDA ^ | 12-10-20 | FDA

[Meah]

Pfizer vaccine results analysis (my own) from FDA document. I am not medically trained, so anyone else who wants to look at my results, please chime in.

The purpose of the vaccine is to reduce severe Covid illness, not reduce infection rates. Here’s how it works: participants receive either 2 doses of the vaccine or 2 doses of placebo. If, after receiving a dose, they come down with “acute respiratory illness” (not defined in the documen, but I’m assuming some breathing difficulty), then they are tested for SARS-Cov2. (P. 13 of pdf document) There were roughly 17,500 participants in each group. After the first dose, 9 vaccine recipients were tested and found to be positive for the virus. 169 placebo participants were tested and found to have the virus.(p.25) Second dose had 8 severe cases for the vaccine and 162 for the placebo, with both doses resulting in the same percentage of severe cases. Thus, the vaccine participants were 95% less likely to have severe Covid. Another way to say this is that your chance of severe Covid in the placebo group is 1% and the chance of severe Covid in the vaccine group is 0.05%. This is a significant reduction.

However, the study does not test whether or not you are more or less likely to get the virus. In the vaccine group, 1,594 Participants had Covid symptoms but were not tested (suspected Covid) and in the placebo group 1,816 participants were labeled suspected Covid. (P.42) They may have had Covid or may have had a cold, but we don’t know because they only tested the “acute respiratory illness” participants doe Covid. But as a percentage of participants, 9.2% of vaccine participants had suspected Covid, and 10.4% of placebo participants had suspected Covid. And this obviously does not include assymptomatic cases in each group.

[RummyChick]

who knows..because it cant be read because of the formatting

[House Atreides]

“Thus, the vaccine participants were 95% less likely to have severe Covid.”
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I think there was a 95% reduction in SYMPTOMATIC COVID compared to Placebo. They didn’t test for ASYMPTOMATIC (I.e., trial participants who got the virus but had NO SYMPTOMS) case reduction.

[Lera]

Boosting d3 levels and taking zink lessens symptoms .
Virus has trouble replicating when both are high .
Cheap , easy , safe solution .

[Lera]

Your body absorbs D3 better when you have adequate magnesium and k2 levels . To many Americans are low on magnesium , almost at epidemic levels . (bonus -—> these two vitamins protect you from metabolic and heart disease )

[Meah]

They didn’t test for mild symptoms or asymptomatic cases. They only tested if the symptoms were severe. Reduction in severe cases was 95%. Reduction in mild cases, which they call “suspected Covid”, looks to be about 2%. That’s assuming all the suspected cases actually had it. Again they never tested those cases. And, as you stated, we have no idea about asymptomatic because they weren’t tested either.