Dead Republicans

[Jolly]

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/did-republicans-die-more-during-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=231792&post_id=135418487&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

[George K]

More from Prasad:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-do-you-judge-a-vaccine-program

How do you judge a vaccine program?

How should you judge the success of the COVID vaccination program? A recent JAMA IM paper claims Republicans did worse post-vax— b/c of higher excess mortality. But is this the sole metric of success? I don’t think so.

A good vaccination program does the following

• Results in receipt of the vaccine among people who benefit
• Minimizes receipt of the vaccine among those who do not benefit (in absence of herd immunity considerations)
• Voluntary choice is better than coercion
• Informed consent is better than uninformed persuasion (values freedom)
• If herd immunity is at play— i.e. if the vax halts transmission— researchers demonstrate the threshold necessary and prioritizes #3
• Researchers do not delay FDA EUA of the vaccine merely to sabotage an ongoing election
• Regulators monitors safety concerns carefully, and rapidly respond to changes.

He goes into each point in the article.

[taiwan_girl]

As usual, you can make statistics say anything you want. LOL

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Dead Republicans:

As usual, you can make statistics say anything you want. LOL

Indeed. I saw an article which claimed to be a "meta analysis" of vaccine-induced cardiac injury. I have to find it, but this "peer reviewed" "analysis" only looked at three studies. It ignored one, and only sampled data from the one which met its preconceived notion (vax are bad!).

[Jon]

Talk about fighting the last war.

I hung out with a maga doc this weekend in Denver. Totally against vaccination because it’s insufficiency tested. I pointed out to him that 12B doses have been delivered including 600MM in the US, who could you still say it’s insufficiently tested? He had no answer.

By the way he was hospitalized with Omicron.

[Jolly]

I think we'll be going through pandemic stats for years.

IIRC, wasn't the vaccine not particularly effective against the Omicron variant?

[George K]

@George-K said in Dead Republicans:

Indeed. I saw an article which claimed to be a "meta analysis" of vaccine-induced cardiac injury.