re: Twitter Suspends Science Writer After He Posts Results Of Pfizer Clinical Test

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I don't get it. Why are there only 29 in the trial? Millions of doses have been given.

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Think about that… you think 100% of trial participants died?

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I don't get it. Why are there only 29 in the trial? Millions of doses have been given.

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There weren't, there were/are almost 50k.

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In an ongoing, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded, multinational, pivotal efficacy study, 44,165 =16-year-old participants and 2,264 12-15-year-old participants

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LINK to the actual study that the Twiddiot site removed.

Parts which should raise eyebrows...

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BNT162b2 is highly efficacious against COVID-19 and is currently authorized for emergency use or conditional approval worldwide. At the time of authorization, data beyond 2 months post-vaccination were unavailable.

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Translation: we are guessing this won't hurt people so let's skip Phases I & II population frameworks and skip directly to Phase III. What's the worst that could happen?

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Conclusion With up to 6 months of follow-up and despite a gradually declining trend in vaccine efficacy, BNT162b2 had a favorable safety profile and was highly efficacious in preventing COVID-19.

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The bolded/underlined part has me curious. Are they talking about vaccines in general (Polio, Chicken Pox, etc) or are they talking about other COVID-19 vaccines or are they saying the efficacy of their vaccine begins degrading after 6 months?

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Participants who were healthy or had stable chronic medical conditions were eligible. An active immunocompromising condition or recent immunosuppressive therapy were exclusion criteria.

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COVID-19 is the new black plague (#NotRacist) so why in the bleeding shite would they not include these two groups or at least do a separate, coinciding study based in these?

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Participants with a COVID-19 medical history were excluded, though evidence of current or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on laboratory testing of study-obtained samples was not an exclusion.

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Translation: You couldn't participate if you were known to have had COVID-19 but you could if you didn't know you had ever had it or caught it during the testing. This makes little sense to me.

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Early protection against COVID-19 without robust serum neutralization indicates that neutralizing titers alone do not appear to explain early BNT162b2-mediated protection from COVID-19. Other immune mechanisms (e.g., innate immune responses, CD4+ or CD8+ T-cell responses, B-cell memory responses, antibody-dependent cytotoxicity) may contribute to protection.

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My takeaway from this is that the Placebo Group had an unexpected resistance to COVID-19 which paralleled the Vaccinated Group for up to two weeks.

Even then, if I am understanding the chart correctly, only .08% of the Placebo Group had COVID issues for at least up to 6 months after the test (compared to the <.01% of the Vaccine Group).

My Conclusion: You have pretty much the same chance of dying from COVID-19 whether you take the vaccine or not. While the vaccine will lessen the chances of your catching it, it's statistically irrelevant when compared to that of the unvaccinated (.08% vs <.01%).