True or false? Reuters "fact check" of the Denmark study showing negative VE

substack.com ^ | January 19, 2022 | Steve Kirsch

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Reuters did a "fact check" of the negative Vaccine Efficacy in the Denmark study and the study author used a hand waving argument to conclude the negative VE is due to a bias. What do you think?

Steve Kirsch

13 hr ago

 

I wrote earlier about the Denmark study showing that vaccine efficacy against Omicron goes negative after 90 days:

There is a Reuters “fact check” that says that the author claimed that the vaccines are fine and that the negative vaccine efficacy reported in the paper was simply due to a “bias.”

Oh really???

Here’s why I think the Reuters “fact check” is garbage

First of all, a hand waving argument supported by no data whatsoever claiming bias is not convincing to me.

Furthermore, I think the Denmark paper was accurate for these 3 reasons:

1. we see negative VE consistently in MANY other studies.

2. VE continues to go negative in that study consistent over time… how can they explain that?

3. if it was behavior differences between vaxed and unvaxed that accounts for the bias, then how come people who got Moderna behave DIFFERENTLY than people who got Pfizer?!?

I am not alone in suggesting the authors claim “there must be a bias” as needed to fit the narrative

One of the commenters on the original paper wrote something very similar to what I wrote:

So assume the results you like (high VE for recent vaccination) are causal, but hand wave confounders at results you don't like (negative VE for distant vaccination)? Science?

I couldn’t have said it any better myself. This was my reaction too when I read the paper.

What do you think?

So who got it right? Me or Reuters?

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PING

[ifinnegan]

If the author believes the study, as he does, then he has to believe that boosters work, as this study claims.

[freespirit2012]

I believe there has been recent coverage of studies that say you are free to research many things, but your conclusion must always be “Despite the study, people should still get the vaccine”. That is a prerequisite in order to continue receiving funding for future medical research.

[miserare]

Those crazy Danes drink too much coffee.

They all have “caffeine brain”.

[eyeamok]

Why would anyone ever consider Rueters House of Presstitution to bhe credible in the first place? They are Presstitutes after all

[Boogieman]

One doesn’t actually have to believe the study at all in order to believe the “fact check” of the study was erroneous.

[miserare]

Unfortunately.

Truth is held in great disregard these days...the latter days.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Numbers run a few days ago....

JHU Coronavirus Resourc Center

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/denmark

( 3,114 Danish officially dead from COVID over two years time / 5,792,202 Danes ) x 100 = 0.054 %

Only about five hundredths of one percent. Panic!

[3RIVRS]

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