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Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 146

Twelve-Month All-Cause Mortality after Initial COVID-19 Vaccination with Pfizer- BioNTech or mRNA-1273 among Adults Living in Florida

There were 9,162,484 noninstitutionalized adult Florida residents who met inclusion criteria, including 5,328,226 BNT162b2 vaccine recipients and 3,834,258 mRNA-1273 vaccine recipients. A total of 1,470,100 vaccinees were matched 1-to-1 based on seven criteria, including census tract. Compared with mRNA-1273 recipients, BNT162b2 recipients had significantly higher risk for all-cause mortality (847.2 vs. 617.9 deaths per 100,000; odds ratio, OR [95% CI]: 1.384 [1.331, 1.439]), cardiovascular mortality (248.7 vs. 162.4 deaths per 100,000 persons; OR [95% CI]: 1.540 [1.431,1.657]), COVID-19 mortality (55.5 vs. 29.5 deaths per 100,000 persons; OR [95% CI]: 1.882 [1.596, 2.220]) and non-COVID-19 mortality (791.6 vs. 588.4 deaths per 100,000 persons; OR [95% CI]: 1.356 [1.303, 1.412]). Negative control outcomes did not show any indication of meaningful unobserved residual confounding.

The risk of COVID-19 mortality was higher in BNT162b2 recipients compared to mRNA-1273 recipients (OR [95% CI]: 1.882 [1.596, 2.220]), with an excess per 100,000 persons of 26.0 deaths (95% CI: [19.3, 32.6]). The corresponding risk ratio was 1.88 (95% CI: [1.59, 2.22]). Non-COVID-19 mortality risk was also higher in BNT162b2 recipients compared to mRNA-1273 recipients (OR [95% CI]: 1.356 [1.303, 1.412]), with an excess per 100,000 persons of 203.3 deaths (95% CI: [176.5, 230.0]). This corresponded with a risk ratio of 1.35 (95% CI: [1.29, 1.40])

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 146

Surveillance for safety after immunization: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)--United States, 1991-2001

During 1991-2001, VAERS received 128,717 reports, whereas >1.9 billion net doses of human vaccines were distributed. The overall dose-based reporting rate for the 27 frequently reported vaccine types was 11.4 reports per 100,000 net doses distributed. The proportions of reports in the age groups /= years were 18.1%, 26.7%, 8.0%, 32.6%, and 4.9%, respectively. In all of the adult age groups, a predominance among the number of women reporting was observed, but the difference in sex was minimal among children. Overall, the most commonly reported adverse event was fever, which appeared in 25.8% of all reports, followed by injection-site hypersensitivity (15.8%), rash (unspecified) (11.0%), injection-site edema (10.8%), and vasodilatation (10.8%). A total of 14.2% of all reports described serious adverse events, which by regulatory definition include death, life-threatening illness, hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, or permanent disability. Examples of the uses of VAERS data for vaccine safety surveillance are included in this report.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 146

Mortality statement is from a paper that compared it using VAERS data.I can try to find it again if you are actually curious and not just looking to score gotcha points.

A quick search turned up this paper from Florida.

The risk of COVID-19 mortality was higher in BNT162b2 recipients compared to mRNA-1273 recipients (OR [95% CI]: 1.882 [1.596, 2.220]), with an excess per 100,000 persons of 26.0 deaths (95% CI: [19.3, 32.6]). The corresponding risk ratio was 1.88 (95% CI: [1.59, 2.22]). Non-COVID-19 mortality risk was also higher in BNT162b2 recipients compared to mRNA-1273 recipients (OR [95% CI]: 1.356 [1.303, 1.412]), with an excess per 100,000 persons of 203.3 deaths (95% CI: [176.5, 230.0]). This corresponded with a risk ratio of 1.35 (95% CI: [1.29, 1.40]).

This old paper suggest that typical vaccines have 11.4 VAERS reports per 100,000 net doses distributed with "A total of 14.2% of all reports described serious adverse events, which by regulatory definition include death," So I think my claim 100x checks out (203.3 vs 1.61).

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 146

Take this pre-COVID study as an example, they state: "The VSD mortality rate is lower than that in the general U.S. population, and the causes of death are similar." . Post-Omicron excessive deaths data indicates this is not the case with mRNA on both causes and lower mortality data. Again, from pre-COVID data:

Among 13,033,274 vaccinated people, 15,455 deaths occurred between 0 and 60 days following vaccination. The mortality rate within 60 days of a vaccination visit was 442.5 deaths per 100,000 person-years.

Note that this is deaths per person-years, not death per persons. This is directly comparable to excessive deaths data, where deaths per person-years is higher. While this is not a definitive proof, it is clear signal that something else is going on.

Comment Re:I'm all for this (Score 1) 64

This type of binary thinking (that people you disagree on could not be right about anything) is what drives brain rot on the left. For example, before it became mandatory to criticize "party traitor" RFK Jr., Bernie and he agreed on A LOT of issues. Not much changed from then, other than RFK Jr. joined Trump's administration.

Submission + - White House asks FDA to review pharma advertising on TV (whitehouse.gov) 1

sinij writes:

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to ensure transparency and accuracy in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising, including by increasing the amount of information regarding any risks associated with the use of any such prescription drug required to be provided in prescription drug advertisements, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall take appropriate action to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Actâ(TM)s prescription drug advertising provisions, and otherwise ensure truthful and non-misleading information in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements.

Advertising dollars is a major avenue for pharmaceutical companies to influence news and attempt to shape public opinion. Advertising was a major contributor to painkiller addiction, where networks were hesitant to cover early reports of addictivness. It is likely directly contributing today to lack of critical coverage of Ozempic. It is just too big of a conflict of interest to allow to stand.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 1) 146

Wait, so you actually believe that all those excess deaths that were attributed to COVID infection were actually caused by the vaccine?

I didn't know Cathy Newman had a /. account. In the very quote you supposedly responding to, the very first link, the very first paragraph:

Excess mortality is a statistical term that refers to the additional number of deaths, from all causes, during a crisis, above the level we expect to see in âoenormalâ conditions
In this case, we're interested in comparing the number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic to the number we would have expected had the pandemic not occurred. This is a very important statistic that cannot be known but can be estimated in several ways.
Excess mortality is a more comprehensive measure of the total mortality impact of the pandemic, compared to the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths. This is because it captures not only confirmed deaths, but also COVID-19 deaths that were not accurately diagnosed and reported as well as deaths from other causes that are attributable to disruptions and overall crisis conditions.
In the section âoeExcess mortality during COVID-19: backgroundâ, we discuss the relationship between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and excess mortality in further detail.

If true, this suggests some legal funny business, i.e. everybody who sees a spike protein in some culture convinces a judge that the vaccine caused the death.

No, you are suggesting that, without any evidence. More so, Japanese data is not out of line with VAERS data in US. Deaths due to vaccines are rare, but in case of mRNA shots they are 100x what is normally seen from vaccinations. Worldwide over past few years it is at least hundreds of thousands into low millions. To the point that "everyone get a shot" is hard to justify as a health policy.

I'm not an expert in the field, so I'm not going to try to tear this article apart, but once a group of authors has such a high number of papers retracted...

You might as well justify your views based on Twitter/FB censorship policies. You do understand that a lot of retractions are administrative (i.e., politically motivated) and have nothing to do with content of these papers?

Comment Re:Don't know about Monetization but they lost me (Score 2) 25

Google perpetuated massive AdSense fraud, where they pretended that both competition was bidding up on search terms and actual people (and not bots) clicking ads to siphon advertising money away from traditional media. During 2015 or so I was running Google search ads for a niche of a niche business, there was nobody else running advertising on my search terms, yet Google would rather not show any ads then allow me to run them for less than $2.5/click. Because of low visitors, I could see with high degree of certainty that clicks that I'd get, despite selecting "first part search only" were all bots. Was a waste of money even at 500$/mo budget, even when legitimate leads would be worth to us easily couple hundred.

Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 0) 146

So the worst-case, most ultra-paranoid interpretation of the data results in a few thousand deaths

You have no idea what you are talking about on excessive deaths. Start reading here
Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic

Conclusions Excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years, despite the implementation of containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines.

Significant Increase in Excess Deaths after Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan

After the emergence of the Omicron variant, however, the number of infections surged dramatically in Japan in 2022, despite more than 80% of the population having been fully vaccinated. Surprisingly, the number of excess deaths per million in Japan exceeded 1400 in 2023, three times higher than that in the United States, whereas COVID-19 deaths in Japan accounted for only 10% of these excess deaths.
Another hypothesized cause of the excess deaths is various adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Indeed, under its relief system for injury to health with vaccination, the government has provided payouts for as many as 8432 injuries including 903 deaths after COVID-19 vaccination as of November 18, 2024.

Myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination: Epidemiology, outcomes, and new perspectives

Despite consistent safety signals showing a relatively high risk of myocarditis and its sequelae in younger age groups, public health authorities have defended the continued use of these products with claims that myocarditis from SARS-CoV-2 infections, including Omicron, is more frequent; that vaccine-related myocarditis is rare, mild, and transient (without long term sequelae); and that the benefits outweigh the risks. However, our critique, grounded in epidemiological, clinical, and immunological evidence, challenges these assertions. The combination of low risk of severe COVID-19 and a higher likelihood of mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis in younger people makes it difficult to rationalize a policy of ongoing mRNA vaccines in this population.

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