COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Effectiveness – the Elephant (Not) in the Room
Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele, Michel Vaillant Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR… Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which […]
Are Covid Vaccines the Superspread Vector for Omicron?
el gato malo i’ve spoken quite a lot about why leaky vaccines drive viral evolution to select for vaccine advantage. rolling out non-sterilizing vaccines is is terrible idea. it’s like only taking half your course of antibiotics and then wondering why MRSA is suddenly everywhere. it’s just a selector for resistance and advantage. the basic […]
FDA Panel Votes to Waive Clinical Trials for New COVID Boosters
Megan Redshaw The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory panel on Tuesday voted 19 to 2 to recommend new COVID-19 booster shots that include the Omicron variant this fall. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) did not issue guidance on whether additional data would be needed to recommend an updated composition of the primary-series vaccines authorized for […]
Covid & Vitamin D: Lack of Benefit of Vaccines in Canada
David Grimes We can see that in data corrected for prevalence of vaccination, the Covid-19 deaths are higher in the unvaccinated group compared to the three vaccinated groups. There appears to be mortality benefit from one or two vaccinations, but the benefit is lost in those with three vaccinations. My understanding of this is that each […]
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 Natural Immunity to Vaccine-induced Immunity: Reinfections verses Breakthrough Infections
Sivan Gazit et al. Reports of waning vaccine-induced immunity against COVID-19 have begun to surface. With that, the comparable long-term protection conferred by previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 remains unclear. … This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, […]
FOIA Request to the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
2022-00662-HEA Data from December 17, 2021 to May 5, 2922 for COVID deaths and vaccination status
A FOIA Request Came in for Nova Scotia
Jessica Rose Please refer to the recently FOIAed document received from the Nova Scotia Office of the Deputy Minister Health and Wellness Department. There they go again with that fast and loose use of the word ‘Health’. It is dated June 1, 2022. … The document shows that COVID-19 injectable product use has a dose response: […]
Pfizer, Moderna COVID Vaccines May Increase Risk of Infection, Study Shows
Megan Redshaw A new peer-reviewed study shows two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine yield negative protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, while previous infection without vaccination offers about 50% immunity. The findings, published June 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) analyzed information from more than 100,000 Omicron-infected and non-infected residents in Qatar from Dec. 23, 2021, through Feb. […]
