Alex Berenson: Here we go again—You know how I know public health authorities are lying? Their own data
(alexberenson.substack.com)
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Alex Berenson is moving the goal posts.
The public health authorities are talking about fully vaccinated people. the ones with two jabs and the second one at least two weeks ago.
Berenson wants to use a different definition (partially vaccinated - those who had a jab or maybe two but the two weeks haven't passed yet since the second one) and that's OK, but to claim the public health authorities are lying because they don't use his definition kinda defies logic.
One dose gives your immune system practice at recognizing the virus. Where did you get the idea that it crushes it?
Tell me more, please, or maybe a link. I haven't heard that before.
I see. Because Alex Berenson says so. "The pandemic's wrongest man," OK.
That study backs up what scientists have been saying ever since they started to get a handle on how effective the vaccines are: roughly half after the first dose, and as effective as they're going to get after the second has a chance to get to work. The precise numbers vary somewhat from one vaccine to the next.
There's nothing in there about crushing the immune system after the first dose.
It says:
"Results The estimated vaccine effectiveness in preventing infection ≥7 days after second dose was 86% (95% CI 72-94%) but only 42% (95% CI 14-63%) ≥14 days after a single dose. No difference in vaccine effectiveness was observed between females and males. Having a prior positive test was associated with 91% (95% CI 85 to 94%) effectiveness against new infection among the unvaccinated.
Conclusion A satisfactory effectiveness of BNT162b2 after the second dose was suggested, but with possibly substantially lower effect before the second dose."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21254636v1
Sure. Who needs facts from experts? The opinion of a journalist is just fine.