If you're going to jump in and say "well read his next article he linked": okay, let's do that.
Further, nine vaccine recipients had died from cardiovascular events such as heart attacks or strokes, compared to six placebo recipients who died of those causes. The imbalance was small but notable, considering that regulators worldwide had found that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines were linked to heart inflammation in young men.
9 vs 6 out of ~22 000 is not statistically significantly, (p-value > 0.05), so why bring this up? Because it fits a narrative.
At best, the results suggested that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine - now pushed on nearly a billion people worldwide at a cost of tens of billions of dollars and ruinous and worsening civil liberties restrictions - did nothing to reduce overall deaths.
I love this. 14 deaths in placebo, and 15 in vax group. Not significant! However, this is expected. If I randomly choose an American, there's a ~0.025% chance they died in the time period of the study: 79 604 died / 329.5M population. In a sample of 44k (the original studies population), I would expect that 44k * 0.025% ~= 10 ppl to die from Covid in that time period. This is a number too low to be reliably detected with a population of only 44k (it's noisy!). What do I mean by that? Let's say 15 die of natural causes in both groups, and an additional 10 died of Covid in the control group. So 15 vs 25. This is not significant! We would need larger sample sizes, or longer period of observation, to detect a difference in deaths.
If you're going to jump in and say "well read his next article he linked": okay, let's do that.
9 vs 6 out of ~22 000 is not statistically significantly, (p-value > 0.05), so why bring this up? Because it fits a narrative.
I love this. 14 deaths in placebo, and 15 in vax group. Not significant! However, this is expected. If I randomly choose an American, there's a ~0.025% chance they died in the time period of the study: 79 604 died / 329.5M population. In a sample of 44k (the original studies population), I would expect that 44k * 0.025% ~= 10 ppl to die from Covid in that time period. This is a number too low to be reliably detected with a population of only 44k (it's noisy!). What do I mean by that? Let's say 15 die of natural causes in both groups, and an additional 10 died of Covid in the control group. So 15 vs 25. This is not significant! We would need larger sample sizes, or longer period of observation, to detect a difference in deaths.