> This claim does not appear to be grounded in any factual basis No factual basis in that paper but you seem to be saying "no factual basis at all" which is fl

> This claim does not appear to be grounded in any factual basis No factual basis in that paper but you seem to be saying "no factual basis at all" which is flat-out wrong, indeed basing such a claim on one paper is disingenuous: Absence of evidence in 1 chosen paper is not evidence of absence in general. You only have to compare the linkage between cases and deaths in UK waves 1 and 2, with the much lower level of deaths for comparable numbers of cases in wave 3, to see the "much, much smaller death toll" staring you in the face. Your chosen paper is also largely irrelevant before we even get there; it's about mRNA vaccines, whereas the UK's program has leaned heavily on AZ, which is not.