[COPY] Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11f

Where’s the plague?

NOTE: Apologies to our freebie readers. This post was accidentally sent by a doddering old geezer to payers only. So we are sending it out again for all to enjoy.

Yes, we are back on the Comirnaty series; even old geezers need some light relief. 

This post is brief; the first part has a background, some facts, and a question. There’s a short second part with what we think is remarkable about the facts. Not clear? Wait.

Part 1 

In July 2024, we posted this, 11d in the Comirnaty series: 

Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11d

In it, we explained some of the uses of data from placebo arms in randomised controlled trials. Although controlled (as in, run by researchers following a protocol) and on selected populations, placebo arms tell you much about what is going on without the intervention (drug, vaccine, device, whatever). A real placebo is an inert substance that is visually the same as the real stuff. In the Comirnaty case, it was a saline placebo.

So in 11c 

Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11c

and 11d, we looked at the definition of the effectiveness outcomes (va…