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Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11e

Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11e

Putting the definition of a pandemic into context

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You are probably wondering why we used the subtitle “Using the placebo arm data - you never had it so good” for the previous post in the series.

Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11d

Exploring regulatory data sets of the Comirnaty vaccine - 11d

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That’s because, in the chaos and headless chicken running around activity that engulfed the world during 2020 and 2021, we have not seen any credible data on the number of genuine cases of SARS-CoV-2, real active human cases capable of transmitting the infection. Vague definitions, misuse, and misreporting of polymerase chain reaction and antibody tests raised a media and miasma cloud of impenetrable nonsense. People who stood to gain in any way possible took advantage of the situation. You know the rest.

The Pfizer trial C4591001 gave us an inflated but possibly most accurate incidence estimate. Waving our wand, we accepted the estimate in our previous post, ignoring the problems present even in the placebo arm data. We got 130 cases per 100,000 “at risk” (which, in the panic, meant just about anyone).

Old geezers may remember the rule of when …

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