I’ve not read this yet, but have seen some very high praise for it, including this BTL comment from someone who’s opinions I take seriously
IM Doc
June 25, 2022 at 8:25 am
I feel this is one of the most important studies put out in the past year. The more I have thought about it, it may be one of the most seminal papers in my career over decades.They are fairly clear what their definition of sae is and not sure I would feel the same way as you do.
This paper is a direct result of the dissembling and obfuscation of Big Pharma and our government agencies. The authors used multiple back door approaches with multiple data sets to come up with these results because the real genuine data that would answer the questions remains under lock and key. It is an absolutely fascinating study on how one may get answers in more than one way. Indeed, this will be required reading for students on my IM rotation from now on. It is important in two ways. The fascinating ways they deduce this data and a warning for the future about trying to subvert science and hide data. We cannot allow this to go on.
And these are not just Twitter bot writers. They are quite frankly the shining lights of medical data studies and epidemiology. Sander Greenland writes THE medical epidemiology book used by medical students everywhere. His book sits proudly on my shelf. Doshi is the editor of BMJ, the last of the Big 4 with its reputation not in tatters, and Kaplan is the CSO of the AHQR. These people live and breathe math in medicine and how to do approrpriate trials. They are our supreme experts in this realm. This simply cannot be ignored. And as someone who has spent decades on IRBs and journal clubs, I am just blown away by this work.
And the basic end result is that they found many more had to endure side effects from the vaccines than the vaccines prevented hospital stays. Damning. And it was much worse for Pfizer. Furthermore, as they state, and is clear from careful reading, they very likely are very much understating the ratios and the effect is likely much larger. But they cannot know for sure. Because the raw data has not been released from either Pharma or our govt agencies. As far back as my original post more than a year ago on the vaxxes, I stated that was a HUGE problem with the initial studies. Something did not seem right and the only way to find out is the raw data. And here we are 18 months later and not a step further down the road. We now have lived experience that they are a huge disappointment in containing infection despite the “triumph” framing, and we have all kinds of red alert signals about side effects. And still no data. These vaccines have been coerced on our population. Our leaders must step up to the plate and demand the data to be released. There is no other way to get to the bottom of this. The authors of this study have laid out in the best possible way what we can know and they too are begging for the data to be released. They assert this is critical because the raw data can lead us safely to risk stratification for vaccine administration for demographics, something we cannot do even remotely now. We are blasting them into everyone.
Where is the data? How is withholding data consistent with science? Given all that is happening around us, why is this being allowed to happen? Why are we allowing these vaxxes in our kids without the most full picture of benefits and risks freely available to the parents and their doctors? Why is there not an Act of Congress or Executive Order to do so?
This paper, by these experts who cannot be ignored, is a blatant indictment of our current situation. And given the reputations of these authors, it is an indication of the shift happening in my profession about these therapies. We cannot allow our current status to continue on.