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And yet most of the people hospitalized in BC are unvaccinated so vaccination does make a difference. I believe the situation is the same in other areas. Some
by msie 5y ago
And yet most of the people hospitalized in BC are unvaccinated so vaccination does make a difference. I believe the situation is the same in other areas.
Some suspicious things about this paper:
- while one author has authored many papers, the other has none and comes from a secondary school
- while they don't come right out and say it, it seems they are arguing against vaccine passports, and lockdowns as they don't mention those in the summary as mitigation efforts
- the summary reads like talking points for anti-lockdown crowd, it even says that we should treat covid like the flu at this point
- one of the cited references is also widely cited by the anti-vaxxer crowd, the reference saying that natural immunity is better than vaccine-acquired immunity (reference 8) and the paper has not been peer-reviewed
- they are mis-representing data from at least one of their references (10: Improving communications around vaccine breakthrough and vaccine effectiveness.) This CDC presentation has a chart showing that there is a greater risk of hospitalization for the unvaccinated but they chose to use the next slide titled: "Increasing percentage of vaccinated persons among those hospitalized in COVID-NET".
- I could go on but I don't want to waste any more of my time on this