“Science” of the Covid-19 Vaccine
First, what was reported in the mainstream news as being 95% effective against infection was in fact relative risk reduction, not absolute risk reduction from the double blind randomised controlled trial that took place during the more lethal circulating post-Wuhan ancestral strain of the virus. That specific NEJM paper which underpinned the emergency use authorisation of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine actually revealed an absolute risk reduction (ARR) of 0.84%. In other words, for every 119 individuals vaccinated one person would be protected from being infected. (3) (4)
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