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    Thomas, you prove you have no understanding of American politics. Rand Paul is a licensed medical doctor. Republicans as anti science and low education levels? You as usual paint one party as the cause. And as usual you have your American politics backwards. Republicans support wall street, the educated, while democrats support blue collar, uneducated. Minorities are the leading cause of vaccine hesitancy, they vote blue!!!!!

    Paul is pushing a party-political point - as you well know. Equally - you well know that party's base is anti-science and also anti-expert. Basically - anti Fauci.


    It used to be the case that Democrat support was from the poor, Republican from the rich, and that richer => better educated. No longer.


    Both in the US and UK there has been a realignment of politics where the left aligns with those who are educated and more cosmopolitan, the right aligns with those who are less well educated.


    In fact left/right are no longer as important as culture identification - educated/internationalist vs uneducated/localist.


    For example Trump's political position is strongly uneducated/localist but also quite left-wing economically. Cheney far to the right of him.


    It is thoroughly confusing, and leaves no political home for those who are right-wing and side with the well educated (Cheney).


    Quote from Fm1

    Thomas, you prove you have no understanding of American politics. Rand Paul is a licensed medical doctor. Republicans as anti science and low education levels? You as usual paint one party as the cause. And as usual you have your American politics backwards. Republicans support wall street, the educated, while democrats support blue collar, uneducated. Minorities are the leading cause of vaccine hesitancy, they vote blue!!!!!

    Do you have data for that?

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    It seems there is very little difference between white and minorities on vaccine hesitancy, whereas - as you well know - the big factor is which party you support.






    How political polarization broke America’s vaccine campaign
    The US’s partisan divides have left much of the country vulnerable to Covid-19 — leading to unnecessary deaths.
    www.vox.com


    95 percent of Democrats are already vaccinated or want to get vaccinated, while just 50 percent of Republicans report the same. The share of Republicans who reject the vaccine hasn’t significantly budged all year, remaining in the range of 41 to 46 percent.


    Measuring the correlation between a state’s vaccination rate and 2020 election results, Masket found a coefficient of 0.85, with 1 meaning a one-to-one correlation and 0 representing no correlation. As Masket noted, “We almost never see this high a correlation between variables in the social sciences.” In fact, he added, “vaccination rates are a better predictor of the 2020 election than the 2000 election is. That is, if you want to know how a state voted in 2020, you can get more information from knowing its current vaccination rate than from knowing how it voted 20 years ago.”


    Covid-19 has been extremely polarized in the US

    There is nothing inherent to Republicanism or conservatism that made polarization around Covid-19 inevitable. Around the world, countries led by those on the right, like Australia’s Scott Morrison or Germany’s Angela Merkel, have taken the virus seriously and embraced stringent precautions. From Canada to South Korea, countries that are at times roiled by serious political conflict by and large avoided it around Covid-19 as all sides of the aisle confronted the real threat it presented.

    “It didn’t have to be this way,” Gadarian said. “There’s really nothing about the nature of being a right-wing party that would require undercutting the threat of Covid from the very beginning.”

    It’s not hard to imagine a timeline in which Trump took the coronavirus very seriously in a way that aligned with his rhetoric and policy goals: tightly locking the country’s borders, for example, and rallying Americans to embrace their patriotic duty to mask up and social distance to protect the nation from a virus originating in China.

    Obviously, that’s not what happened.

    At first, in February, there actually wasn’t a big split between Democrats and Republicans over whether the virus was a “real threat.” It wasn’t until Trump and others in his party spoke out more about the virus that Republicans became more likely to say the virus isn’t a danger. Elite cues fostered different American reactions to Covid-19.

    Trump actively downplayed the virus, claiming in February 2020 that the virus would quickly disappear “like a miracle” from America and comparing it to the flu. Republican politicians and media followed suit, with blue-red fissures soon forming between states that were sticking to tighter precautions and which weren’t.

    Public attitudes quickly took form. In March 2020, 33 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of Democrats said Covid-19 was a major threat to the health of the US, according to the Pew Research Center — a hint of early polarization. By July 2020, the gap had widened: 46 percent of Republicans saw Covid-19 as a threat to US health, versus 85 percent of Democrats.

    That translated to reported behaviors. In a Gallup survey conducted in June and July of 2020, 94 percent of Democrats said they “always” or “very often” wore a mask outside their home, while just 46 percent of Republicans said the same.

    “We saw it very early on,” Gadarian said. “The gaps in health behavior and all sorts of other attitudes are pretty steady over time. It got locked in and affected how people take in new information.”

    Fast-forward to today, and this polarization remains in place with the vaccines. According to Civiqs’s polling, 95 percent of Democrats are already vaccinated or want to get vaccinated, while just 50 percent of Republicans report the same. The share of Republicans who reject the vaccine hasn’t significantly budged all year, remaining in the range of 41 to 46 percent.

    Measuring the correlation between a state’s vaccination rate and 2020 election results, Masket found a coefficient of 0.85, with 1 meaning a one-to-one correlation and 0 representing no correlation. As Masket noted, “We almost never see this high a correlation between variables in the social sciences.” In fact, he added, “vaccination rates are a better predictor of the 2020 election than the 2000 election is. That is, if you want to know how a state voted in 2020, you can get more information from knowing its current vaccination rate than from knowing how it voted 20 years ago.”

    Yet Republicans can take public health crises seriously, as many have with the opioid epidemic and did with the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Some research also suggests that Republican governors who took on Covid-19 earnestly, such as Maryland’s Larry Hogan and Ohio’s Mike DeWine, managed to sway more of their constituents to embrace precautions.

    Given that evidence, some experts speculated that, in an alternate reality, a President Mitt Romney or President Jeb Bush would have taken the Covid-19 threat much more seriously — and perhaps avoided polarizing the issue much, if at all. “Almost any other president would have recognized the severity of it, largely being in sync with the FDA and CDC,” Masket said.

    Thanks Thomas, I'm a believer in compromise but Washington has banned that sometime ago. Trump was never a conservative, more a reactionary. He built a base by declaring he would clean the swamp, both republicans and democrats! That appealed to a lot of people. Rip it down and start over. Much like the democrats are trying to do now with some of our government institutions !

    Press: Two big lies are harming America
    In the end, there’s only one person who can fix this mess: Donald Trump himself.
    thehill.com


    The evidence is incontrovertible. After it looked like we’d finally turned the corner, we’re back in crisis mode. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are up again, especially as the highly transmissible Delta variant takes hold. According to the CDC, new cases are up 70 percent from the previous week; hospitalizations, 36 percent; deaths, 26 percent.


    Why? Because so many Americans, fed lies by anti-vaxxers, refuse to get vaccinated. Almost all new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred in states where vaccination rates are low. Just a handful of states with low vaccination rates – Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, and Nevada — report a plurality of new cases.


    In fact, according to the CDC, 97 percent of people currently hospitalized for severe Covid-19 infections were unvaccinated. What does that tell you? That the vaccine works. All of them: Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. That those who refuse to take the vaccine are putting themselves in danger, as well as their friends and family. And that anybody who casts doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine has blood on their hands.


    And yet, the Trumpers — again, the same people who insist Trump actually won the 2020 election — continue their war on the vaccine. This month, Georgia’s wacky Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) urged Americans to “just say no” to the vaccine.


    North Carolina’s Madison Cawthorn (R) warned that Biden’s plan for volunteers going door-to-door to reach millions of unvaccinated Americans means the federal government could seize “your guns” and “your Bibles.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) continues to peddle the lie that natural immunity against COVID’s as good as vaccine immunity.


    Meanwhile, Trump himself made the same connection. On July 18, he put out a statement blasting Joe Biden: “He’s not doing well at all. He’s way behind schedule, and people are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration, they don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth.”

    Notice: Trump links no trust in election with no trust in vaccine. Which is not only dangerous, but makes no sense politically. Instead of dumping on the vaccine, Trump should be taking credit for it. Whatever you think of his presidency, Trump did a good job pushing for speedy development of an anti-Covid vaccine. Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. Without it, we might still be struggling without a vaccine. Yet, instead of championing his success, Trump and his backers are undermining it and putting the lives of more Americans at risk.


    In the end, there’s only one person who can fix this mess: Donald Trump himself. It’s time for Trump to stand up and say: Whatever you think about 2020, that’s a different issue. On COVID-19, let me be clear: I’ve been vaccinated and I think you should be, too. What a great show of leadership that would be. Don’t hold your breath.

    Is Israel or the UK right when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness?


    Is Israel or UK right about COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness?
    According to one Israeli researcher, both sets of data could be correct. Here is why:
    m.jpost.com


    Two separate studies, one published by the Israeli Health Ministry and the other published in the New England Journal of Medicine late Thursday showed striking differences.

    “This discrepancy is kind of unsettling and needs to be further investigated,” said Prof. Cyrille Cohen, a member of the advisory committee for clinical trials on SARS-COV2 vaccines at the Health Ministry.

    Specifically, the ministry's study found that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine was only 40% effective against symptomatic cases of COVID-19 and 39% effective at stopping infection at all against the Delta variant.

    It did, however, show that the vaccine remains 91% effective against developing serious cases of the disease and 88% effective against hospitalization.

    The British study, in contrast, found that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine was 88% effective against stopping symptomatic infection against the Delta variant.

    The Delta variant is currently responsible for more than 90% of cases in the country and has been found to be significantly more contagious.

    According to Cohen, there are several possible answers to the data gap.

    FIRST and critical is the difference in time between exposure to the Delta variant and vaccination.

    England vaccinated at a much slower pace than Israel, meaning that the majority of its population was only fully vaccinated by mid-April 2021. This is in contrast to Israel, where around 90% of the country’s most vulnerable population were jabbed by the end of January.

    It is beginning to become clear that vaccine immunity begins to wane after about six months. The Israeli study showed that for people vaccinated more than six months ago, the effectiveness of the vaccine at stopping coronavirus dropped to as low as 16%.

    Among more than 1.8 million people who received two shots by January 31, some 5,770 contracted the virus – and 1,181 of them, or 20% of all new infections, were contracted during the week of July 11 to 17, the Health Ministry reported.

    “If you take into account that they [the UK population] vaccinated later and were exposed to the Delta variant a month before us,” Cohen said, “it could make sense that at the point they checked, they had around 80% effectiveness. The question is what is going to happen in three months? Will they see the same efficacy that we are seeing?”


    THE NEXT issue is age.

    Both Israel and the UK were careful to first vaccinate healthcare workers and the elderly. In England, however, the older population was largely administered the AstraZeneca vaccine, whereas people under 40 were offered Pfizer or Moderna as an alternative due to evidence linking AstraZeneca to rare blood clots. The same study showed that the AstraZeneca vaccine was only 67% effective against symptomatic disease after two doses.

    In Israel, everyone received Pfizer. Breakthrough infections were most prominent among people 60 and older, a cohort that already has a greater tendency to be immunocompromised and prone to developing symptomatic if not severe cases of COVID-19.

    A third explanation relates to the level of PCR testing carried out in the two countries. Israel uses a more sensitive or stringent PCR testing regime than the UK.

    Genetic matter from the virus is amplified in cycles by PCR tests. The more cycles that are run, the more likely the lab is to detect the virus. Israel uses 37 amplifying cycles, which means that you are positive for the coronavirus even if the test process required up to 37 cycles to detect the virus.

    “If the PCR testing is less sensitive, England may miss some cases – or Israel may catch more cases – and that could play a role in the numbers,” Cohen said.


    FINALLY, a separate study that was published over the weekend by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care found that an eight-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine is a “sweet spot” when it comes to generating neutralizing antibodies.

    When England launched its vaccination campaign, it did not have enough doses to vaccinate the population according to Pfizer’s recommended regime of two doses three weeks apart. As such, it spread doses out to between four and 12 weeks to allow more people to get at least one jab.

    Specifically, the new research showed that neutralizing antibody levels, the level of those antibodies responsible for defending cells from pathogens, were higher after the extended dosing interval (six to 14 weeks) compared to the conventional three-to-four-week regime.

    In contrast, the T cell response was of a marginally lower magnitude after the longer dosing interval. T cells provide longer-term immunity and scientists believe that they could provide some immunity to COVID-19, even when antibodies become less effective at fighting the disease.

    “The question is would you wait eight weeks when there is a pandemic?” Cohen asked, noting that separate studies have shown that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine is only around 30% effective against the Delta variant, which would leave the population vulnerable for two months. “It’s a tough question.”

    Cohen's solution is to provide a third shot to the most vulnerable people, which new research is starting to show does a good job in boosting antibody levels.

    “We are still learning the best way to immunize people with these vaccines,” he said. “But we are still in the middle of the pandemic.”

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    That was in March - low profile - and it does not seems to have done any good. Perhaps he should have been a bit stronger? Trump is quite capable of making points strongly...


    Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated to help fight the Covid pandemic, engaging on the issue after months of relative silence.

    “I would recommend it,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo. “And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works.”


    Beyond that, Trump had not encouraged vaccination efforts even as it emerged that he and the former first lady had each received the vaccine before leaving the White House in January. Some of Trump’s top aides in the White House were unaware Trump got the vaccine and reporters were often told it was unlikely Trump would be inoculated because he had antibodies from contracting the virus in October. (The CDC recommends you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had Covid-19.)


    While Trump and the former first lady kept their vaccination a secret, other former presidents and first ladies of both parties teamed up for a national ad campaign that shared images of them getting the vaccine and layed out the importance for others to do so, as well.


    Israel to become first in world to test Oravax oral COVID-19 vaccine


    Israel to become first in world to test Oravax oral COVID-19 vaccine
    Oravax Medical is gearing up to commence clinical trials at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
    m.jpost.com


    Israel is about to become the first country in the world to test the oral COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oramed Pharmaceuticals, the company's CEO Nadav Kidron told The Jerusalem Post.

    Oramed’s subsidiary, Oravax Medical, is gearing up to commence clinical trials of its vaccine at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv after receiving approval for its study protocol from the hospital’s Institutional Review Board. It is now waiting for approval from the Health Ministry, which is expected within a few weeks.

    Oravax already completed GMP manufacturing in Europe of several thousand capsules that would be available for the Israeli trial and eventually in other countries.

    Oramed is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company based on technology developed by Jerusalem’s Hadassah-University Medical Center. In March, it announced a joint venture with India-based Premas Biotech to develop a novel oral vaccine. Together they formed Oravax. The vaccine is based on Oramed’s “POD” oral delivery technology and Premas’s vaccine technology.

    Oramed’s technology can be used to orally administer a number of protein-based therapies, which would otherwise be delivered by injection. Oramed is in the midst of a Phase III clinical trial through the US Food and Drug Administration of an oral insulin capsule for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

    Premas has been working on developing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus since March.

    The new Oravax vaccine candidate targets three structural proteins of the novel coronavirus, as opposed to the single spike protein targeted by the current Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, Kidron said.

    As such, “this vaccine should be much more resistant to COVID-19 variants,” he said. “Even if the virus gets through one line, there is a second line, and if through the second line, there is a third.”

    The vaccine is being tested in preclinical studies against COVID-19 variants, including the Delta one.

    The company completed a pilot animal study and found that the vaccine promoted the development of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies and Immunoglobulin A (IgA). IgA is necessary for longer-term immunity.

    The protocol for the inaugural Phase I/II trial that the company hopes to move forward with at Sourasky would involve 24 volunteers who have not yet been inoculated with another vaccine. Half of the group would take one capsule, and the other half would take two, Kidron said, adding that there is no placebo group because the goal is to measure the level of antibodies and other immunity indicators.

    “The idea here is that we want to show proof of concept: that it works for people,” he said. “I pray and hope that we will. Imagine that we could give someone an oral vaccine and they are vaccinated. This would be a revolution for the entire world.”

    With proof of the concept, “the whole world opens up,” Kidron said.

    “An oral COVID-19 vaccine would eliminate several barriers to rapid, wide-scale distribution, potentially enabling people to take the vaccine themselves at home,” he told the Post. “While ease of administration is critical today to accelerate inoculation rates, an oral vaccine could become even more valuable in the case that a COVID-19 vaccine may be recommended annually like the standard flu shot.”

    The advantages of an oral vaccine go beyond safety and efficacy because oral medications tend to have fewer side effects, Kidron said.

    The vaccine can be shipped at refrigerator temperatures and even stored at room temperature, “making it logistically easier to get it anywhere around the world,” he added.

    Finally, an oral vaccine would not require professional administration.

    The Phase I/II trial is expected to take around six weeks from the time of recruitment.

    If the trial is successful, Kidron said he plans to put the vaccine on an accelerated road to receive emergency-use approval in the countries that need it most, such as those in South America that have not been able to acquire enough vaccines to inoculate their populations.

    The company would hold its Phase III trial with a limited number of volunteers and look for first approval in one of these “emerging markets,” Kidron said, and only later seek US Food and Drug Administration authorization.

    “Israel and the US and some of the other richer countries were the first to get Pfizer and Moderna,” he said. “But it looks to me like the people behind in the race will take over by being the first ones to get the oral vaccine.”

    Steve Scalise, a senior Republican in the House of Representatives, finally got vaccinated on 17 July, after citing increased cases of hospitalisation and the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant. On 20 July, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, told everyone to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.


    It was also revealed that the parent company of Fox News, the right-wing news channel that has become synonymous with scepticism towards vaccine passports, has itself implemented a Covid-19 policy, which includes allowing only the company’s fully-vaccinated employees to work from the office without wearing a mask or social distancing. Just over a month ago, Fox host Tucker Carlson likened the workplace passports to racist laws from the Jim Crow era, similar to “segregation”.

    It's unclear why this shift among conservatives is happening now. Some have speculated it is because of the spread of the aggressive Delta variant, particularly in states that lean Republican. Or because US stock markets tumbled on 19 July, as international concerns grow about the prospects of economic recovery.


    Whatever the reason, the new support comes not a moment too soon: hospitalisations are up, particularly in areas where vaccination rates are low. There have been breakthrough cases among fully-vaccinated individuals — but the greater risk is still to persons who are not fully-vaccinated, who currently account for over half the country. Three states in particular — Florida, Missouri, and Texas — are now responsible for 40 percent of new cases.

    Encouragingly, five states where Covid-19 is surging — Florida, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas and Nevada — have seen vaccination rates beat the national average for the second week in a row. But immunity takes weeks to develop, and the virus is ravaging communities now.


    The fact that Donald Trump, in a recent statement, tied vaccine hesitancy to the belief that the election was stolen is also profoundly unhelpful. Conspiracies about the vaccine have already percolated through the population and, on 22 July, a CBS morning programme played a video of an interview with a man who, having just survived a bad case of COVID-19, still refused to get vaccinated.


    As for the impact of more positive vaccination messaging? Late is, in this case, better than never. But for some, it will be too late.


    https://www.newstatesman.com/w…ovid-19-vaccine-hesitancy (paywalled)

    I wonder how many of those post graduate degrees are in math and science!

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    here is a nice interactive COVID risk calculator:

    See how age and illnesses change the risk of dying from covid-19
    Our risk model estimates chances of death and hospitalisation based on age, sex and comorbidities | Graphic detail
    www.economist.com


    Unfortunately I'm at the male-78 zone .. 10% death 30% hospitalized zone. Moderna-vaxed, though.


    I wonder why the hospitalized levels off at 30% - and deaths looks as if it might be at 20%-ish

    ps : I admire your efforts to quantify the vax vs unvaxed risks : I started a "one-step SIR model" spreadheet .. but most of my parameters are "unknown".

    Quote from Alan Fletcher

    https://www.economist.com/grap…-mortality-risk-estimator


    Unfortunately I'm at the male-78 zone .. 10% death 30% hospitalized zone. Moderna-vaxed, though.


    I wonder why the hospitalized levels off at 30% - and deaths looks as if it might be at 20%-ish

    ps : I admire your efforts to quantify the vax vs unvaxed risks : I started a "one-step SIR model" spreadheet .. but most of my parameters are "unknown".

    That model is based on diagnosed COVID - so it is CFR - higher than IFR but not a lot more now in the US where testing is pretty widespread!


    But I like that it is interactive and reasonably complete in terms of comorbidities


    Maybe levelling off is because not having comorbidities becomes more significant?

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    World Ivermectin Day in the Philippines

    Dr Landrito...RNA .vaccines?? " a modern version of Russian roulette" TM 9.34

    Youtube will ban this most probably..soon

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    Dr Landrito refrs to the Dengue vaccine tragedy when 600 children died...

    Lancet? Lancet? Guiltless? Sanofi??

    " In November 2017, Sanofi Pasteur announced that the vaccine could indeed exacerbate cases of dengue in children never previously infected, and the Philippines halted the campaign immediately. (WHO now recommends the vaccine be used only after a test to be sure children have had at least one brush with dengue.)

    Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines
    Rose Capeding could face years in prison for her role in clinical trials of Dengvaxia
    www.sciencemag.org


    I must be really dim - or missing some subtextual message here.


    What on earth do the unexpected problems with DengVaxia have to do with ivermectin?

    Quote from Mark U

    By the way, here in Toronto I haven't seen anyone on our street today wearing a mask,

    Switzerland is free since ever!

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    3/4 cases silent - well that might be true but the estimates I've seen for asymptomatic infection are lower - maybe 40%,

    All large studies did reveal the same fraction. Switzerland now has 70% antibodies among all age groups (Got it?)

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    wearing masks is partly about being polite in public spaces towards others.

    No wearing a mask in my vies is highly impolite. You signal (Japan, Korea, China) that you are infected. This is a breach of quarantine. Masks (FP98) only ,make sense indoors in crowded places!

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    As Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, explained, the EcoHealth Alliance/Wuhan Institute of Virology research did not fall under the moratorium because it was using natural viruses and it could be reasonably argued that these were not likely to be highly transmissible and highly virulent in humans.

    She got bonus! Some 10 pages back we did post the e-mail Fauci got where is friend explains how they added the AIDS virus ACE-2 enhancement groups. After this the virus was no longer natural. And of course they added quite a few other things.

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    In fact, according to the CDC, 97 percent of people currently hospitalized for severe Covid-19 infections were unvaccinated. What does that tell you?

    The USA fascist doctors still do no proper out patient treatment...

    Quote from Fm1

    It is beginning to become clear that vaccine immunity begins to wane after about six months. The Israeli study showed that for people vaccinated more than six months ago, the effectiveness of the vaccine at stopping coronavirus dropped to as low as 16%.

    Sell your Pfizer shares !!

    Quote from Fm1

    Genetic matter from the virus is amplified in cycles by PCR tests. The more cycles that are run, the more likely the lab is to detect the virus. Israel uses 37 amplifying cycles,

    Even > 32 makes no sense in general. But for an old guy with weak immune system it could help sometimes.

    Quote from Fm1

    as opposed to the single spike protein targeted by the current Moderna and Pfizer vaccines

    Moderna has two targets. That's the reason why it is at least 2x better on all scores than Pfizer and soon will be 10x better as the non spike target has not yet shown mutations...

    One more time how THH and his cheating friends fake the numbers.


    Number of vaccines are not equal number of vaccinated. That way you can manipulate a factor of 2.

    Same case in Myocarditis. Only males are affected. THH's buddies take all tested and include woman or girls in the fake children paper.

    Again you can fake a factor of 2.

    Even more severe is the fact that 97% of all deaths are among age >65. So real statistics can not be done without splitting the set here. >=65 <65.

    The next split is needed at 45. Age < 45 has almost 0 death or about 10..100x less deaths than from flu.


    So all overall statistics are nonsense. At least 3 subgroups are needed.


    Known results:: Fake mortality among younger shown to be 10..20 x higher than in reality...


    All this is from real data. Not from mafia related institutes that are paid to invent propaganda.


    Why does THHuxleynew refuse real data e.g. from worldometer or Hopkins (both are identical) or Paul Ehrlich, Swissmedics??

    He is unable to concede any error or to say I'm paid to do so. Paid within free Masons means he got some privileges he now has to "pay back". Famous FM privileges are "Tax reductions" by mutual consent = you pay what you want or think is OK.

    I know how this works from Swiss FM members...And other privilege is getting a job far outside qualifications...

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    Even more severe is the fact that 97% of all deaths are among age >65. So real statistics can not be done without splitting the set here. >=65 <65.

    The next split is needed at 45. Age < 45 has almost 0 death or about 10..100x less deaths than from flu.

    Again, I must be dim.


    Covid has an exponential risk/age graph. I fail to see why these two arbitrary cutoffs are important?


    Flu also had exponential death/age characteristic (whenever a new strain emerges)


    The age distribution of mortality due to influenza: pandemic and peri-pandemic - BMC Medicine
    Background Pandemic influenza is said to 'shift mortality' to younger age groups; but also to spare a subpopulation of the elderly population. Does one of…
    bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com


    But I bet you are not taking that into account when making comparisons...


    I love the idea of almost 0 death. A bit like being nearly pregnant.


    THH

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