Emily
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Healthy Vaccinee Bias: Letter to the Editor of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
By Eyal Shahar September 22, 2023
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
Dear Editor,
Nordstrӧm et al. have studied the relative effectiveness of the fourth dose of a Covid vaccine against all-cause death, versus three doses, in elderly residents of Sweden. One of their two cohorts comprised 24,524 residents of nursing homes. The authors estimated vaccine effectiveness of about 40 percent in the frail elderly (a rate ratio of about 0.6).
As I will show here, the true effect was somewhere between a rate ratio of 1.2 and 2.4, namely, negative effectiveness. The fourth dose was futile at best, and possibly harmful to this vulnerable population...
https://brownstone.org/articles/hea...tter-to-editor-lancet-regional-health-europe/
By Eyal Shahar September 22, 2023
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
Dear Editor,
Nordstrӧm et al. have studied the relative effectiveness of the fourth dose of a Covid vaccine against all-cause death, versus three doses, in elderly residents of Sweden. One of their two cohorts comprised 24,524 residents of nursing homes. The authors estimated vaccine effectiveness of about 40 percent in the frail elderly (a rate ratio of about 0.6).
As I will show here, the true effect was somewhere between a rate ratio of 1.2 and 2.4, namely, negative effectiveness. The fourth dose was futile at best, and possibly harmful to this vulnerable population...
https://brownstone.org/articles/hea...tter-to-editor-lancet-regional-health-europe/