Posted on 07/16/2022 9:30:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The race to develop a vaccine against covid-19 was a matter of life and death. A recent study found that in 2021, 20 million lives were saved by the jabs. Researchers at Airfinity, a life-sciences data firm, have used those numbers—along with data on which shots were most widely administered in each country—to estimate which one averted most deaths.
Airfinity found that more than half of lives saved around the world could be attributed to just two vaccines, which shared first place: AstraZeneca-Oxford and Pfizer-BioNTech. Each averted between 5m and 7m deaths (because of the considerable uncertainty, The Economist deemed this a statistical tie). In third spot was the Sinovac vaccine (sometimes known as CoronoVac), at approximately 1.7m-2.2m lives saved, closely followed by Moderna at 1.5m-2m.
To estimate how many lives each type of vaccine had saved, Airfinity drew on a recent study by epidemiologists at Imperial College London. This study estimated the number of deaths averted in the first year of vaccination, which started on December 8th 2020. The company’s researchers then distributed these lives saved between jabs. To do so they relied on each vaccine’s share of inoculations by country by the time the study ended. They also accounted for slight differences in their efficacy at preventing death, as shown in clinical trials.
In doing so, they made several assumptions. First, that when a country had offered multiple types of jabs, these had been administered at similar times. In fact, this was not always the case. In Britain, for instance, inoculations were initially all delivered with Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, and only later included those of Moderna and AstraZeneca-Oxford. Nor did Airfinity account for the fact that certain vaccines were given disproportionately to more vulnerable groups in a given country (such as the very old), which might have led to their saving more lives.
The study that Airfinity built on excluded China, where fewer data are available, as well as tiny countries with a population of less than 90,000. That suggests that all numbers should be a bit higher, and especially those for the Chinese jabs—though the limited spread of the virus in China also means the impact of their absence from the study is not as great as it might have been.
That AstraZeneca-Oxford and Pfizer-BioNTech emerged as the leaders by the end of 2021 should come as no surprise. Both ramped up production early, and by the end of the study period had by far the most doses administered outside China, at about 2bn and 1.5bn shots respectively. Moreover, many of their jabs went to older populations which were especially vulnerable to covid.
These numbers only show deaths averted by the end of 2021. Vaccines continue to save lives, and have allowed most countries to return to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy. In the race to develop covid jabs, at least 20m spectators and their loved ones have been the ultimate winners.
The Economist should have changed its name to “The Communist” a long time ago.
The China Virus only had a 99.78% survival rate and the “vaccines” lowered that number significantly with its fatal side effects, Long Haul and reinfection.
Gee.
Where’d ya get that from?
;D
HUH?
How do the know the people would have died without it?
I got the J&J...did more people die who got the J&J? I don’t get it.
I seen it somewhere just recently... I forget where.
lol :-)
BS
LOL
I was going to post the “It’s a madhouse!!!” gif but that one was even better.
Not getting the vaccine is the clear winner for saving the most lives.
They need to determine which one murdered the most people.
The study wasn’t looking at heart complications or clots.
You know, with how science is conducted today, you can argue the the Nazi’s saved 2
1,500,000 people from being eventual cancer deaths with Zyclon B.
The various vaxxes save TRILLIONS, I tell, TRILLIONS of lice!
Oops, you said lives?!?!
Oh, never mind.
</sarc>
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The graph is kinds confusing
But if I am reading it correctly it seems that the top 2 ‘vax’ saved about 7 lives each
And all of them together saved under 25?
Seems well worth the billions spent
DC has co-opted so many Nazi and communist tactics, Lysenkoism shouldn’t have surprised us.
RE: But if I am reading it correctly it seems that the top 2 ‘vax’ saved about 7 lives each
YOu forgot to add Million to the number 7 in the above sentence. Just 7 lives would be ridiculous.
It's very straightforward. You look at the Covid death rate in the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations, after adjusting for demographic differences.
Then it's just math.
But unfortunately much closer to reality
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