COVID-19 vaccine study that was blocked from CDC journal is published elsewhere
A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.
The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open.
The findings are not particularly surprising: Researchers have repeatedly found that COVID-19 vaccines work. But the paper drew public attention after Trump administration political appointees decided not to run it in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication.
They argued that the study’s design was too vulnerable to false assumptions that could produce flawed results. But many public health researchers maintain it’s a reliable design that’s been used for decades and offers the best way to understand how well a vaccine is working currently.
“It is critical that we continue to characterize and publish estimates of vaccine effectiveness in populations with changing immunity against evolving viral strains,” wrote Natalie Dean, an Emory University biostatistics expert, in a commentary that accompanied the study’s publication Tuesday.
The research originally was scheduled to be published this spring in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC’s flagship publication. It had been cleared by the agency’s Office of Science but was flagged by acting agency Director Jay Bhattacharya, said Althea Grant-Lenzy, the CDC’s chief science officer, in a recent interview.
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Streisand Effect.
I'm not anti-vax, I will get the vaccine if I need it for something. For now though, I still question, "How come someone can get the fucking covid-19 vaccine 6 times and still get covid 6 times?"
Measles was all but eradicated before people decided because it wasn't in existence (thanks to the efficacy of the vaccine and years of people getting it) and stopped getting the vaccine BUT it worked how it was supposed to work.
Covid, is comparable to tetanus, in the way you can keep getting it even after a booster.
Because without the vaccine, you only get COVID once.
COVID evolves faster than modern slang. There are multiple subtypes that come and go with varying levels of effectiveness.
vaccines are not some guaranteed panacea. It basically trains your immune system to fight the infection without actually getting the infection. Its the reason for a variety of symptoms you get from a vaccine because it triggers your immune system so it becomes active. So it relies on the strength of the immune system and how up to date the vaccine is. Variations will be helped by an older vaccine but not as much as it would if it was targeted to the variant. It gives you no more protection than you get from getting the disease (this is a bit debateable but generally true) you just don't have to suffer the actuall consequences of the disease or knock on effects from when it wrecks your body. Add to this that contagious disease is dependent on viral loads. So how much virus you are exposed to. Its why masks are effective even if they are a piec or cloth over your face. Well made and fitting ones that are made of materials that only allow particles below a very small sized get in are much more effective but there is some effectiveness for anything. even a face shield that does not seal the face. Its also why distancing work as someone producing viruses will have them disperse in the air volume in that equilibrium kind of way. Most viruses only survive so long although the time is dependent on media and things like sunlight (uv rays). It does seem crazy someone would get vaccinated and get it 6 times but if they like work in a hospital covid ward and don't mask it would not be surprising (although I find it hard for that scenario to happen). If its an active pandemic and they don't mask and spend every night in a crowded bar and have kids that go to a crowded shool and such. Its possible.
I read the whole report, and there was no mention of the Bill Gates microchips or 5G.
The cover-up continues.....
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The paper in question: Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults Using a Test-Negative Design https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2850668
I still have a hard time finding who is it recommended too. Every western country seems to have a different recommendation
Obviously people who are more vulnerable should get it, in order to reduce their risk of death. However, given the devastation you can get from long covid, I think everyone else should get it as well. I think the original stats were that something like 2% of covid patients die and 10% get long covid, and those percentages are just too high for my comfort - and those are percentages that we could revert to with the next new variant.
A vaccine does not prevent infections, it just primes your immune system to deal with infections. If exposed to SARsCov2, you will get infected, but vaccines will affect how fast your body deals with the infection. Long COVID is debilitating and if you only need one reason to get a tiny needle once a year, that is it.