[Steve_Seattle]

Since the vaccines were narrowly targeted to deal with the original strain of Covid-19, and are progressively less effective against newer strains, the claim of a generalized health benefit from the vaccines would need to be justified by positing some specific cause-effect relationship at the cellular level. Did the CDC establish what that relationship is?

Too many other possibilities exist, e.g., the vaccinated are generally in better health; the vaccinated have better access to good health care; the vaccinated are more pro-active in taking care of themselves; and - more controversially - the statistics have been selected and/or manipulated to show the desired result.

[edwinland]

You are right about the other possibilities. What you describe is called the "healthy vaccinee eeffect". And in the article that's exactly what the CDC said is the likely cause.

The author manipulated their study to falsely claim that the CDC says that getting the vaccine lowers your mortality from all causes which is absurd and they did not say that.