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Far from perfect? Have you seen the latest data?

We now know for example, that the risk of being hospitalised due to vaccine side effects is orders of magnitude more likely than that the vaccines will save you from being hospitalised with COVID.

In randomized control trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines here in the UK, we now know the risk of serious adverse effects from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines was 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated i.e. a ~1 in 800 change of serious adverse effects:

22-Sep-22 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

The UK government has now published its estimate of the number of people needed to vaccinate to prevent a COIVD-19 hospitalisation:

25-Jan-2023 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For example in the 20-29 year no-risk group, the number needed to vaccinate to prevent one hopitalisation is 168,200. To prevent one serious hospitalisation requiring oxygen or ventilation you would need to vaccinate 706,500.

In the UK data, there is litterally no group of people where the likelihood of being hospitalised with side effects is less than the liklihood of being hospitalised with COVID.

It was a disaster that has left us with a plague of "unexplained" excess deaths - a topic that no politician or mainstream journalist wants to touch with a barge pole.




Your first link, straight from the introduction: "Our study was not designed to evaluate the overall harm-benefit of vaccination programs so far. To put our safety results in context, we conducted a simple comparison of harms with benefits to illustrate the need for formal harm-benefit analyses of the vaccines that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes. Our analysis is restricted to the randomized trial data, and does not consider data on post-authorization vaccination program impact. It does however show the need for public release of participant level trial datasets."

If it wasn't designed to evaluate the harm benefit of vaccination, why are you portraying it as such?


It doesn't really matter the stated intent of the authors. The fact is that the paper does show a hospitalisation rate of 1 in 800.




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