Read through their article.
The dishonesty in their article isn't apparent until you read far enough down to see the voodoo they are using to make their point.
Pfizer had an equal amount of people who had been vaccinated, and had not been vaccinated in the ongoing clinical trial in order to calculate the effectiveness of their vaccine, so in order to calculate the real-world effectiveness all we have to do is perform the same calculation using the rates per 100,000 numbers supplied by the UK Health Security Agency, which are as follows –
The efficacy of all available vaccines combined is as low as – 85.71% within the 40-49 age group, and as high as – 3.4% in the 30-39 age group. This shows that the Covid-19 vaccines are making people more susceptible to catching Covid-19, rather than preventing cases of Covid-19 by the claimed 95%.
Here's where they lie: they don't tell you the absolute numbers of infection in each group.
Go to page 13 of the report, found here:
On Page 13: The unvaccinated total 337,570 of the cases. The vaccinated total 305,326
That is already a red flag. Why? Because the majority of the UK population is vaccinated. If the vaccines are useless, then you'd expect cases to show up in the exact ratio of unvaccinated to vaccinated. So if 70 out of 100 are vaccinated and the vaccines are useless, you'd expect your cases to be 70 cases for the vaccinated and 30 cases for the unvaccinated.
Our world data shows the UK at 67.1% vaccinated (select UK from the list):
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL
Since the unvaccinated group make up a majority of those cases, you can already tell the unvaccinated group is at a clear disadvantage. They get enough viral load to generate positive test results at a much higher rate than the vaccinated group. We can end the entire conversation about the author from that article being a lying piece of shit - no need to take it further since they are going out of their way to lie. But there are better ways to measure: cases per 100K.
Thankfully, the UK Health Security Agency already did some of the math for us: the found the cases per 100,000 (cases per capita) statistic for us. Again, we will go back to page 13, here:
And what does it show the case rate to be per 100K for each group?
615 average cases per 100K for the fully vaccinated group. 735 average cases per 100K for unvaccinated group.
That should immediately destroy any attempt at data-obfuscation that the author tried to do in this article. That's the crux of it. That's the end of this discussion since their point was only about the cases. We have the data: the author is wrong.
But is that REALLY what the vaccines are supposed to do? Stop the spread of the coronavirus? Nope! That's not what they do.
What the vaccines actually do is greatly reduce your chances of hospitalization and death.
So what does that data look like?
They have that data, too:
Page 14 from this same link:
Table 3. COVID-19 cases presenting to emergency care (within 28 days of a positive specimen) resulting in an overnight inpatient admission by vaccination status between week 36 and week 39 2021
12 average hospitalizations per 100K for the fully vaccinated group. 38 average cases per 100K for unvaccinated group.
What does that mean? It means if you are unvaccinated you're 3.17 times more likely to require hospitalization than the vaccinated group. It also means that the population hospitalization rate is 12/100,000 people for vaccinated and 38/100,000 in the unvaccinated group.
Okay, what about death?
Page 15:
Table 4. COVID-19 deaths (a) within 28 days and (b) within 60 days of positive specimen or with COVID-19 reported on death certificate, by vaccination status between week 36 and week 39 2021
9 average hospitalizations per 100K for the fully vaccinated group. 28 average cases per 100K for unvaccinated group.
That means you're 3.1 times more likely to die from the coronavirus without the vaccine than those who are vaccinated.
But that doesn't tell the whole story. It's not that simple. The UK data has a very broad definition which is "positive specimen" of COVID-19 instead of "positive specimen within 7 days of hospitalization and at time of death." Because, for most people, they get over the virus in 2-14 days.
So what does the REAL data look like? Data that looks for positive cases much closer to the data of hospitalization and death?
King County collects such data. The outcomes are much scarier for the unvaccinated:
8x more cases among the unvaccinated. 46x more hospitalizations among the unvaccinated. 78x more deaths among the unvaccinated.
These are much scarier numbers. Because they test closer to the date of hospitalization and near time of death.
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccination-outcomes.aspx
And we have another report from the USA that breaks it down by age group:
Unvaccinated 12-34 year-olds in Washington are • 6 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 12-34 year-olds. • 26 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 12-34 year-olds.
Unvaccinated 35-64 year-olds are • 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds. • 20 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds.
Unvaccinated 65+ year-olds are • 4 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds. • 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year olds. • 9 times more likely to die of COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.
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