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May 25, 2022Liked by Dr. Flurm Googlybean

Can you be sure that the "efficacy" in the first few weeks isn't simply due to the misclassification of vax statuses? Over time, the misclassification disappears (as those vaxxed within 2 weeks) get moved from the unvaxxed to the vaxxed where they should have been all along). If you control for that, I doubt you'd get any efficacy at all. And for infections, you wouldn't expect to either since it is wedll established by now that the "vaccines" to do not prevent infections.

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I cannot be sure — as far as I know Oregon did not provide any known/unknown correction prior to Jan 2022. I expect other states have this problem and worse (suspect for example California is mostly vax—>unvax misclassified). There could still be misclassification in this data (beyond the two weeks post shot you mention, though if there’s some immune transition thing going on I’d argue the two week or whatever period be called out as its own category, as should single shot). I think the claim here too though was that the omicron wave in particular was so big it overwhelmed their databases — hence the later corrections after weeks (somewhere I work out how crappy a response time their poor rickety database must therefore have).

And this could indeed also all be a farce based on flawed test performance that instead detects who knows what, and efficacy is all a feature of, for example, different thresholds for either category… Yep lots of room for funny business. Guess what I’m doing is taking their data on its face as they present it to me and _still_ not seeing these the wonderful mandate-able true herd immunity inducing saviors of the free world they’re sold as.

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