There’s a new peer-reviewed research paper out regarding the COVID Vax. It’s bad. How bad? I’ve shown it to two physicians so far. One said he “had a seizure” reading it. The other said something worse.
Long story short: 436 BILLION copies of spike protein are found circulating freely in blood plasma, a month after the COVID (Gene therapy) vaccine.
In kids.
Their hearts, screeching in pain with Myocarditis, will never fully recover.
You knew that, didn’t you? But there is more than that . . .
(See link for article with damning information and graphs)
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Important excerpt:
First, this study was done and submitted for “peer-review” on May 26, 2022. It was ACCEPTED for publication (after peer-review) on November 23, 2022. So the world has known, as a matter of scientific research, these details, since May of last year. Yet no one called for Vaccines to be HALTED.
They had scientific proof the vaccines were causing heart damage . . . myocarditis . . . which, incidentally, has a FIFTY PERCENT mortality rate within five years, and they said . . . nothing.
Want to know why? MONEY.
They can’t admit it’s potentially harmful and deadly.
They can’t suddenly stop the shots; To do so would be an admission of guilt.
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**Comment**
Others sat on crucial information which could have saved thousands of lives as well. Recently, Dr. Joseph Fraiman, lead author of the peer-reviewed research reanalyzing the Pfizer and Moderna trials knew back in August that the clot shot increases serious adverse events at a rate of 1 in 800, but did nothing.
ALERT! International Medical Billing Codes Used by the U.S. Government and Private Insurance Now Track Your COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
1/18/23
Leo Hohmann has just published a special report about how the International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes used by the medical industry for billing purposes under Medicare-Medicaid and the private insurance companies, now include a code for COVID-19 “vaccination status.”
This means that if you visit a medical doctor, or are admitted to a hospital, they will ask you whether or not you are up-to-date on your COVID shots, and enter that into your medical records.
Hohmann’s report confirms that this code is now being implemented and has started.
This is yet another reason why it is imperative to STOP using the medical system.If you don’t use their services, they cannot track you.
I know this seems like an impossibility to many people, as we have been brainwashed our whole lives to believe that we cannot survive without medicine and hospitals, but I assure you that it is possible. I have been doing it for years, and I raised my three children, now all adults and one of them with “special needs,” all without using the medical system.
Start looking for other healers in your community, or even online, if you have not done so yet. Many older systems of healthcare do still exist in the U.S., even though the FDA and Big Pharma have worked hard to outlaw them. Homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), aromatherapy and the use of essential oils, are a few of the many options you have available.
For those who simply cannot go cold turkey and immediately stop using the medical system, then the next best option is for you to drop your health insurance, and start paying out of pocket for your medical services from private medical practices.
If you are someone who is conscientious about your health, and takes responsibility for your own health rather than running to a doctor or the ER every time you get sick, as most readers of Health Impact News would be, then you are a cash cow for the health insurance industry, because they make money off of you and your healthy lifestyle.
I decided decades ago I was not going to keep funding the health insurance industry with my good health, and invested in myself instead, trusting God that if a major crisis arose where I needed emergency services, that God would supply the funds needed to pay for them directly.
And God has honored that faith throughout the years. The few times our family had to use ER services (all years ago and pre-COVID), we were able to afford to pay for it out of pocket, and over the years we saved a LOT of money by not paying expensive health insurance premiums every month.
If you are paying out of pocket for medical services and do not use insurance, in most cases you can get by without surrendering so much private information, including your vaccination status (don’t even offer your social security number if you are paying out of pocket).
Look for private practices that allow you to do that. There are many out there, and many of these providers even choose not to accept Medicare and Medicaid insurance, to avoid Government over-reach.
The one organization I have recommended over the years to search for such private medical providers, is The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Even before COVID was launched upon the world in 2020, AAPS was providing a platform for private providers and patients who wanted to avoid government over-reach in healthcare.
They have a provider list where you can search for private practices that will serve patients without insurance that you can search for here. Just do your own due diligence to make sure they will respect your privacy, because simply being listed on the AAPS site does not guarantee that.
Also, look for providers who have been offering these kind of private services for some time now, before COVID started. Because there are a lot of these whistleblower doctors that are now jumping onto this bandwagon but have not operated like that in the past, and many of them still promote the COVID shot for certain people, and other vaccines as well, as we have frequently reported.
Be especially aware if they require any kind of technology registration, such as the use of apps and other things, as a requirement to use their services, and of course verify that you can pay out of pocket without insurance.
EXCLUSIVE Special Report: Medical profession implements WHO digital diagnosis code for the unvaxxed
Doctors will be ‘incentivized’ by the government to start asking more questions about your vax status
A set of international codes are used by the medical industry for billing purposes under Medicare-Medicaid and the private insurance companies, but it’s not just about billing.
These codes are part of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) system set forth by the United Nations World Health Organization and they’re about to get far more invasive.
This system was originally created after World War II for the purpose of tracking the diagnosis of major diseases within a population. But over the years, there have been 11 major revisions, and with each revision the data being collected on each individual has become more precise and all-inclusive.
More than 1.6 million clinical situations can now be coded, according to the WHO website.
And it’s also become more coercive, to the point where it’s become impossible for doctors to get reimbursed by insurance companies if they don’t upload all the requested data points.
According to an April 2016 article in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, “Across the years, it has become an integral part of the payment infrastructure of the U.S. healthcare system along with the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system for medical procedures.”
The ICD system really grew into an electronic data-mining beast with the passage by Congress of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in 2012. The digitization of healthcare records was fully implemented with the upgrade to ICD-10 after two congressional delays in 2016.
Since then, there has literally been a numeric code created for almost any diagnosis you can think of, and some you would never think of (Search “crazy ICD-10 codes” and you will see what I’m talking about).
Fast forward now to April 2022. This is when the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced a new code that anyone who is awake and aware of the growing medical tyranny should be concerned about. After some delays, the new code was rolled out in October 2022 and became available to nearly every medical clinic and hospital in January 2023.
What is this new code? It’s Code Number Z28.310. This is the code for a very peculiar “diagnosis” since it’s not a diagnosis at all, but an invasion of privacy and likely to be used against many people in the future. This is the code your doctor will log into the computer system that is accessed by government and private health insurers informing them of your Covid vaccine status.
These are internationally recognized codes for very specific medical conditions for insurance and government purposes. They are accessible worldwide should you be overseas and have a health issue that needs to be treated.
I recently interviewed a fully licensed M.D., a physician who practices in a Midwestern state and has full hospital privileges. This doctor’s name will remain anonymous because if it were to get out, he could end up losing his job. On January 12, he informed me that Code Z28.310 went live in his state.
“Yesterday (January 11) it showed up for the first time in any kind of hospital paperwork I’d seen,” the doctor told me.
If diagnostics aren’t entered properly, a doctor may not get reimbursed. Now that this new code is officially required by government and private insurance providers, doctors will likely now be “incentivized” to ask about your vax status, he said. That means they get financial payouts whenever the government decides there’s a “meaningful use” for this data.
I had no idea that doctors were being bought off in this way.
This system appears to be the way the military-industrial-biomedical complex will identify and separate out those who have submitted to their digital identification system, which starts with being “up to date” on your shots — endless shots. As the late Dr. Zev Zelenko and others have said, these continuous boosters will become a “gateway to transhumanism.”
The powers that be at the United Nations and World Economic Forum have a “need to know” when it comes to those who reject this demonic transitioning of the human race, which the transhumanists refer to as an “upgrade” to “humanity 2.0.”
“I’ve never used this diagnosis code, never would for any patient,” the doctor told me in a follow-up interview this week. “I never even knew it existed until last week.”
He explained that Z28.3 is the diagnostic code for being under-vaccinated generally, but it gets more specific from there.
“It’s non-specific,” the doctor explained. “But with Covid they added the 1 after the 3 (Z28.31), so Covid is the only vaccine they’re specific for. Then they added a second digit if you’re partially vaccinated and didn’t get any of the boosters.”
These codes could continue to get more specific to the point that they also log in codes for why you refuse Big Pharma’s ineffective and unsafe — but very profitable — injections.
The doctor told me he saw one patient’s diagnosis code that was specific for refusing the vaccine due to his schizophrenia.
“A lot of people with schizophrenia are paranoid of shots and different treatments, so his doctors were attributing him (as unvaxxed) on that basis,” the doctor said.
So it doesn’t take too much of an imagination to see how this system could be abused.
What about if you continually refuse your doctor-recommended vaccines? Could you end up being diagnosed with mental illness? The doctor I spoke with agreed that this is not far-fetched. And once you get diagnosed with a mental disorder, you can lose many of your constitutional rights. You essentially become a second-class citizen.
“You could technically get a diagnosis of schizophrenia from any medical doctor, but usually they will refer you to a psychiatrist to make that diagnosis,” he said.
And that’s not the only thing to be concerned about with regard to this new diagnostic code.
Here’s where it gets interesting. At the G20 Summit held a couple of months ago in Indonesia in November 2022, the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies issued a joint statement that called on the nations of the world to implement a global digital vaccine passport system, based on standards set by the WHO, which would force international travelers to have a digital vaccine passport ID on their mobile phone.
Without it, you would not be “allowed” to travel outside your home country, unless of course you’re an illegal migrant trying to get to the U.S. or Europe from an “undeveloped” or “under developed” country.
We also know, from a Forbes magazine article published in February 2022, that nearly half of the states in America had already at that point signed the contracts and laid the infrastructure to implement digital vaccine passports, so this same system could eventually be used to control, or at least monitor, the travel of Americans outside of their states.
Then we have the World Economic Forum’s push toward Smart Cities, recently rebranded as “15-Minute Cities,” which would monitor and restrict travel outside of one’s city. Are you following me here?
A digital system is being put in place that would have the capability of essentially locking down entire populations at any given time. All that would be needed is a declaration of a “public health emergency of international concern,” or of “regional concern” and the U.S and E.U. are trying their hardest to turn that authority over to the WHO in the form of a new pandemic treaty.
Eventually, as we have been informed by Yuval Noah Harari, a top adviser to Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, the plan is to put this digital surveillance technology not just on your mobile phone but “under the skin.”
Surveillance Under the Skin ~ Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
The doctor in the Midwestern state explained a medical terminology called “meaningful use” and how it’s used to log personally identifiable data on medical patients.
“If you ever wondered why they try to get your blood pressure and your weight every time you go to the doctor’s office, it’s because hospitals and physicians get reimbursed if they provide ‘meaningful use’ data. They get reimbursed better. They get bonuses. Doctors have monthly meetings with staff and administrators and this is how they get reimbursed higher, they get more money, if they provide that meaningful use data.”
He further explained that if the ICD-10 coding system requires doctors to find out their patients’ Covid vax status as part of the “meaningful use” data, then they will add that to their office charts and they will get reimbursed handsomely for providing this information to the government.
“Every time you go to the doctor’s, they will try to get this information out of you,” he said.
The U.S. expanded its ICD system under the presidency of Barack Obama and the adoption of the Affordable Care Act. Previously, the U.S. used the ICD-9 system, which required less specific and less invasive information on patients,
“but then with the ICD-10 system all of a sudden, they got real specified. Instead of just high blood pressure it became, is this high blood pressure caused by spending too much time with your mother-in-law or is it because of this other thing, whatever it may be. It became very specific.”
“ICD-10 also includes significant improvements over ICD-9 in coding primary care encounters, external causes of injury, mental disorders, and preventive health. The ICD-10 code sets’ breadth and granularity reflect advances in medicine and medical technology, as well as capture added detail on socioeconomics, ambulatory care conditions, problems related to lifestyle, and the results of screening tests.”
In other words, ICD-10 coding became a tool for extraordinary data mining of Americans’ personal life histories.
When ICD-10 was implemented, that’s when the AARP got the contract to administer the program in the U.S.
It also got more rigid.
“As a doctor, you have to use the ICD-10 system to get reimbursed,” my doctor source told me.
Even if you do not have government or private insurance and pay strictly out of pocket, each and every diagnosis is still logged into the system.
“If you have an interaction with the healthcare system, you will have an ICD-10 code logged and assigned to your condition,” he said. “And all that data goes into a central database that was created under Obama so that the Electronic Medical Record systems (EMR), can talk to each other.”
“Nobody else is talking about this,” he told me.
Obamacare forced all doctors to use the EMR system in order to get reimbursed.
“Because up until eight or ten years ago, a lot of doctors were still using paper charts. It’s all digitized now.”
In fact, according to the WHO website, that U.N. body has already rolled out an “upgraded” ICD-11 systemand is working to get nations to adopt it.
When the U.S. federal government adopted ICD-10, it subsidized the transition, offering interest-free loans and grants that many doctors’ offices used to pay for the upgraded EMR software systems.
“There were hundreds of millions of dollars allocated, but then you had to allow the government to come in and access your books whenever they want,” the doctor said. “But now you can’t get reimbursed unless you go through this system. Virtually every doctor is a part of this system now.”
Bottom line:Be aware of what information you hand over to your doctor, because they essentially all work for the government now. That’s who they are beholden to for reimbursement. And if your doctor asks too many questions that seem unrelated to the health issue you’re being treated for, you may want to fire them and find a new one.
This news is particularly troubling for Lyme/MSIDS patients who are already misunderstood and abused by the medical system. Those suffering with life-altering brain infections are misdiagnosed and labeled with mental illness far too often already. Now, those who are choosing not to be an experimental pin cushion by foregoing the clot shots are now at even greater risk of being labeled with mental illness, which in turn will put them at risk of losing their individual rights.
If you think this “over the top,” please know that in Ontario, doctors are encouraged to consider psychiatric drugs for “vaccine” refusers. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see where this is headed.
Just today, prison staff and inmates in Illinois have been exposed to an “unknown substance.”While “officials” haven’t stated exactly what this substance is, “local sources” state it is fentanyl, which can only cause symptoms if it gets into the blood stream. This of course begs the question of how this outbreak happened. The reason I bring up prisons and prison staff is because of the Mycoplasma fermentans outbreak in a Texas prison which served as the backstory to Garth Nicolson’s book, “Project Daylily.” Nicolson states Mycoplasma is the #1 coinfection with Lyme/MSIDS and is virtually undetectable but can cause all manner of chronic diseases. It’s also important to note that genes part of the HIV-1 envelope were found in these Mycoplasmas, which in a nutshell means that a person may not get HIV but they may get some of the symptoms.This should sound familiar because part of the HIV envelope has also been found in the clot shots. Who is behind the HIV debacle?Fauci, of course.
Why prisons? Prisoners serve as a perfect example of a population with virtually no rights – which is exactly what could happen to those deemed with “mental illness,” the new norm for “vaccine” refuseniks. Please be aware that virtually anyone can be called a “prisoner,” and have their rights taken away.
There has been work done to get Lyme recognized in the ICD codes. While this appears at first blush to be a good thing, we can now see how the entire system can be used against patients in a diabolical way.Perhaps the very barriers for Lyme/MSIDS patients (having to find independent doctors who typically won’t except insurance, requiring us to pay out of pocket)may benefit and protect us in the long run. Lyme literate doctors (LLMD) have been forced to go outside the system for a very long time. They’ve had to restructure their entire business model to be able to treat us as its the insurance companies turning them in for treating outside the CDC guidelines which function as mandates. These doctors take the necessary time with patients and treat the body holistically unlike typical allopathic medicine being used in hospitals and most “managed care.”
Unscientific and unlawful “vaccine” mandates don’t take individual health or beliefs into account (WI Governor Tony Evers has vetoed every bill for “vaccine” freedoms)
Biden blames the unvaccinated for the economic downturn
‘This is the greatest public health disaster in the history of the world.’ Source
In fact, safety signal reports have been labeled “misinformation” by the very capturedagencies that are now admitting the obvious.
Researchers, including researchers who reanalyzed trial data, have been coming forward for two years with damning information including the fact the “vaccine” increases serious adverse events at a rate of 1 in 800. Even heroic moms with science backgrounds have exposed the fraudulent data being used to push the shots.
Yet now, the truth appears to be penetrating the shields of those ignoring the signs for two years. Many feel they knew all along the shots were dangerous and that when enough people collapsed and died they would eventually be caught. But, they won’t really be “caught.” They never are. They will simply point at someone else, and slither away. Then, they will offer a solution that will allegedly clean the bodies of the toxic spike protein, contaminants, and other pollutants. And of course, they will profit financially. The very people behind the entire mess will stay in power and continue to do what they do best: control others and monopolize every aspect of life while taking money to the bank.
One possible “solution” is a mRNA treatment designed to be injected directly into the heart of those who have sustained heart attacks, which is quite convenient as the clot shots are linked directly to heart issues.
Now they can money on the front end and the back end.
BTW: another study just confirmed the results of the IgG4 immune switch in the “vaxxed,” but even with fewer shots. Some speculate that because the immune system in the “vaxxed” has been trained to allow COVID to remain in the body, they are getting ill but are now unable to clear whatever infection they have. This explains what is being seen in the real world.
A safety monitoring system flagged that U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 shot could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults, according to preliminary data analyzed by U.S. health authorities.
Red Flags are going off…
The recommendation:
This safety concern has not been identified with Moderna’s bivalent shot and both the CDC and FDA continue to recommend that everyone aged 6 months and older stay up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccination. (Reporting by Bhanvi Satija in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
Just get a Moderna Shot instead.
This will lead to chaos, my friends…and well it should!
Because too many people have been asleep for too long!
And what about those under 65?
Remember the first myocarditis reports?
People with heart attacks?
And all of those people who you heard about dying, from a stroke, that nobody believed could be caused by the Jabs?
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated: officials
By Julia Musto, Fox News
January 14, 2023New York City health officials are warning residents that the infectious omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated or infected with COVID-19.
“Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC,” the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene tweeted on Friday. ” XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19.”
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
In the upside down world of COVID, “officials” still are recommending the clot shot despite hospitalization data since last August showing that more “vaccinated”are dying of Covid than unvaccinated. UK data show the unvaxxed have lower mortality. Boosters are only 30% protective despite a perfect strain match. At the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO required any qualifying “vaccine” be at least 50% effective, yet now everyone is content to settle for 30%, and that increase the risk of infection with each dose given. Illogic at its best.
The FDA and CDC are beyond hope and rehabilitation. They are captured agencies that quit concerning themselves with health a long, long time ago. I would not hold my breath for the CDC to investigate anything. Lyme/MSIDS patients have been waiting for over 40 years and unfortunately still work with this corrupt agency that hasn’t done one single positive thing for them.
Further the CDC continues to twist information for its own purpose. In the latest case, it states bivalent boosters reduce the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization by 80% in people over 65. What fails to mention is that the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization during the 70-day period of observation is 0.055%, or 1 in 1,818.The booster offered a 0.048% risk reduction in hospitalization. And because the CDC doesn’t show what the risk of ischemic stroke is — only that it is “increased” — it is impossible to draw any conclusions about risk vs. benefit. Source
If you are worried about XBB 1.5, dubbed “The Kraken,” watch this:
As Medical Staff Shortages Continue, the Unvaxxed Are Still Denied Work, Despite the Desperate Need.
Aurora Bisson-Montpetit, an unvaccinated nurse affected by B.C.’s health-care vaccine mandate, joins Rebel reporter and producer Drea Humphrey and Matt Brevner to ask residents in Premier David Eby’s Vancouver-Point Grey riding what they thought of mandates. Visit Rebel News for more on this story ► https://rebelne.ws/3Zs5RB4 Rebel News: Telling the other side of the story. https://www.RebelNews.com for more great Rebel content.
BTW: staffing shortages are are problem here in the US as well. While many want to blame “unsafe work conditions,” mainstream media is completely ignoring the elephant in the room: “vaccine” mandates causing workers to be fired or to walk off the job in protest. Having too few workers is then causing unsafe conditions. Further, many professionals are leaving due to the top down federally coerced COVID protocols, making patients virtual prisoners in hospitals, tying doctor’s hands regarding treatment options, and brutal treatments that are killing people.
Besides being ethically wrong, “vax” mandates are unwarranted and ineffective: Here’s why:
Unfortunately, what many in the video don’t understand is these “vaccines” are actually gene therapy injections that don’t stop transmission or infection. They were developed by the U.S. Military and are called “countermeasures” which were ordered as “prototypes.” So the belief that being around the “unvaccinated” puts you at greater risk of infection is just that – a BELIEF that is not based upon any facts whatsoever. The other unfortunate truth is many in the public are still blind to the fraud and corruption behind “vaccine” research and subsequent fraudulent messaging by public health ‘officials’ who own patents on the very things they are supposed to provide guidance over. Public Health is entirely corrupt, untrustworthy, and should not receive one more dime of taxpayer money.
CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 vaccine.Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.
Healthcare workers have been sold-out by their employers who care more about money than health or freedom of choice.
Translational Failure: Nature Medicine Inmate Study Removes >99% of the Data, Is Used to Conclude that COVID-19 Vaccines Reduce Transmission. PR Score: F-
Study restricts consideration of close contact inmates (who shared cells). As if non-close contacts do not transmit, and as if prison cell settings are relevant for the world outside the Big House.
This is not an academic note. Your representatives, family members, and school boards must know that science on efficacy has been warped just as much as science on safety.
A hugely important part of epidemiologic studies is whether the study sample – the group(s) of people being studied – is representative of the general population about which generalizable knowledge is sought.
The problem for the WHO, CDC, FDA, NIAID, Fauci, and people who message and think like these organizations is this: you cannot debunk reality.
This issue is so important that when I read an observational study, such as this one in Nature Medicine, entitled “Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave”, the first part of the study I read the section that describes the inclusion/exclusion criteria and compares the outcome of the exclusions to the general population for which knowledge is sought. With a title as general as this, one would think that the study has general relevance to the question of whether COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and infections protect against infection and re-infection.
For such a study, I then look to see whether the study found a difference or association (or no difference or association), and then only could report a difference following statistical adjustment for variables. It is truly important to know how the various results were chosen; which variables were selected as confounders, and then, importantly, whether the confounders are suspected (weak) or if previous functional relationships of the type necessary to use the label “confounder”, rather then “covariate”, are known.
Study Earns a Popular Rationalists Score of F- on Generalizability
The study in question involves data from prisons in California’s penal system (hardly a representative population or setting relevant to the rest of society). The following inmates were excluded:
those who were not held in cells with other inmates
those who did not have housing or prior COVID-19 test result data
likely to have tested positive for a variant other than Omicron
housed in a small institution
negative PCR test during the infectious period (risk: false negative results)
had contacts w/inmates w/positive test +/- 2 days after first exposure
inmates without “valid” contacts
no negative test for PCR +/- 2 days of first exposure
no follow-up testing data
could have been exposed to >1 infected case
After Exclusions, the Study Used Only 0.79% of the Data
Starting with over 155,000 inmates, the study was based on a grand final total of 273 unvaccinated + 953 “vaccinated” = 1,226 inmates. “Vaccinated”, of course, was restricted to inmates only after 14 days after their first dose; anyone who developed COVID-19 or who died on days 1-14 after injection was excluded.
The study is relevant for 0.79% of the inmate population and is not expected to be relevant for 99.21% of the prison population in California. Thus, the PR score of F-.
Even after all of this, the initial (unadjusted) results were reported as
“Unvaccinated index cases had a 36% (31–42%) risk of transmitting to close contacts, whereas vaccinated index cases had a 28% (25–31%)”
In other words, the 95% confidence intervals overlapped (31/31). No difference. Fine.
Side note: I have dealt with the issue of adjusting for covariates as confounders – over-adjusting – before, way back on Sept 28, 2015, when I first started reading en masse all of the studies on vaccine safety I could find:
Not to worry – the authors are just warming up. Adjustments await the reader of the Nature study:
“Adjusting for the duration of exposure between index cases and close contacts, close contacts’ history of vaccination and prior infection, facility effects, and background SARS-CoV-2 incidence via a robust Poisson regression model, we estimated that index cases who had received ≥1 COVID-19 vaccine doses had a 22% (6–36%) lower risk of transmitting infection than unvaccinated index cases.”
Now, if you can divine what “facility effects” are from the information provided (I could not), and if you think the duration of exposure does not matter necessarily must be precisely the same between vaccinated and unvaccinated (I do not), and if you believe that the immunity of inmates’ close contact does not matter (it does), you can just use this handy percentage (22%)– and that is the percentage that is being used to claim that the vaccine works.
And of course, that is how the study is being interpreted. It is being misinterpreted as if it provides definitive proof that vaccination reduces transmission (in general) – as if the association can test the hypothesis of causality (it cannot).
But that inference should strictly be limited to assessing the risk of infection in people who have two doses, and then only 14 days after the second dose, or more specifically, inmates who are housed in close quarters with other inmates, and who also meet the exclusion criteria, and is relevant to 0.79% of the inmate population.
And because of the artificiality of the setting, sampling bias of the inmates, and peculiarities of their make-up and their behavior, It is not likely relevant to the general population.
Neil de Grasse Tyson and Bill Maher both said recently that differences between populations differ, Tyson, arm-waving and high-voicing yelping (about how correct he is) tried to use population differences to try to downplay the importance of the miracle of Sweden (as if parts of the United States do not have the same population density!), to which Maher correctly adjusted:
“You just said that we can’t make any judgment (on whether the lesson of Sweden shows our response was wrong) because don’t live in another universe where the United States handled it differently, and I’m saying there are other places that did handle it differently – and that does matter.”
Good for Maher.
The problem for the WHO, CDC, FDA, NIAID, Fauci, and people who message and think like these organizations is this: you cannot debunk reality.
Yes, Sweden matters. The data show that Sweden is doing far better than the United States, and is suffering far as a result of their response. And using inmates, Tyson, as if they are representative of the rest of the US population – well, he should be just as excited about that issue as he is about debunking the reality of Sweden.
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**Comment**
Researchers beware. The public is on to you. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
A new report reveals that Moderna neglected to share damning data about its new booster. Even FDA vaccine advisory committee member Dr. Paul Offit is rattled:
“did shake my faith. It shook my faith in how these decisions were being made.” ~ Dr. Paul Offit
And that, my friends, is the closest thing to an apology you are ever gonna get.
“The experience of the past year has taught us that chasing these Omicron variants with a bivalent vaccine is a losing game,” ~ Dr. Paul Offit, director of the vaccine education center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Offit says it’s time to rethink booster recommendations in a perspective published Jan. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine. He states most have been infected, “vaccinated,” or both and that the latest data show the newest booster isn’t that much more effective in generating antibodies than the original vaccine when used as a booster.
Yet the narrative continues despite the avalanche of truth that continues to fall.
The reason for the walk-back by public health ‘authorities?’ Could it be due to more and more research showing the clot shot does not work but actually gives you a higher risk for infection and has the potential to kill you? Then there’s Japan – in a league of its own due to being more boosted than other countries, yet suffering from excess death and itshighest ever daily COVID death tollin the booster era of early 2022. (Japan continues to count anyone who dies with a positive test, a COVID death regardless of the actual cause)
It’s going to become harder and harder to hide from this. Perhaps corrupt public health ‘authorities’ realize that ‘if you can’t beat them, join them?’
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