It's called a placebo when they inject something that isn't supposed to do anything.....
Darn! At least they could have done something homeopathic... Oh, wait...
Our group has been using the PLUS Cardiac Test (GD Biosciences, Inc, Irvine, CA) a clinically validated measurement of multiple protein biomarkers which generates a score predicting the 5 yr risk (pe
www.ahajournals.org
@Uwe correct me if I am wrong, but that is just an abstract of a test done on patients who all got vaccinated, not a a fully documented study and especially not a double-blind study (so there is no control group). So while the headline certainly catches attention, methodically it appears to lack substance and verification. Based on a brief search - I cannot find the actual study (beyond this abstract) or a single peer review on it which strikes me as odd and leads me to believe that this is (until the full details emerge) is at best unverified and potentially misleading.
FWIW, one can argue that you posting this is a classic technique of science denial (
FLICC) with cherry picking and quote mining. If you can provide more than just the headline, feel free to. Until then, I do consider this entry as non-relevant to the discussion.
This analysis has been shared mostly in the right wing truth seekers bubble and oh surprise, it has some serious flaws. The authors themselves have distanced themselves from this interpretation and specifically stated, that this was taken out of context. A slightly more detailed (German) analysis on this paper can be found here...
Ein in sozialen Medien verbreitetes Papier soll zeigen, dass es einen Zusammenhang zwischen Übersterblichkeit und Impfquote gebe. Einer Überprüfung hält diese Behauptung jedoch nicht stand - was auch die Autoren so sehen. Von Wulf Rohwedder.
www.tagesschau.de
...and for what it's worth, this is the current vaccination rate in Germany by state.
Beim Digitalen Impfquotenmonitoring (DIM) handelt es sich um ein eigenes Meldesystem zur Erfassung der COVID-19-Impfungen und -Impfquoten in Deutschland. Für Informationen zur Funktionsweise des Meldesystems, zu den verschiedenen Meldeportalen und Impfquoten allgemein siehe bitte die FAQ des RKI...
www.rki.de
Compare that to the actual infections...
corona.rki.de
...and you get an idea. We do have a statistically proven 0.8% death rate (by infections), however the next weeks (and it has already started) you will see that number diverging because the test capacity in my country has been exceeded. While the overall lab availability is in the 85%/86% range at the moment, many labs in regions with high demand have been working way above capacity. This means, that many cases will not be properly PCR tested anymore and/or tested late so they don't fall into the report time frame anymore.
Our medical/clinical system is already overwhelmed, we have patients being MedEvac'ed through the country just to make room for new patients. Almost all primary and secondary care facilities have dramatically reduced or completely scrapped elective surgeries. This means cancer, hip surgeries (you name it...) are being deferred, which also means many will be without proper treatment and this will result in unnecessary excessive deaths in the next months on top of the COVID deaths. I have several friends at the local university clinic as well as other clinics around the country and they all say "I have not seen anything like this in my career."
What many here are missing in your numbers and studies and statistics games, we are talking about actual people. People like Jack who were patients, but also about those who care for them and try to get them through this. The reality here is, that our medical staff around this country in an overwhelming majority is overworked by the sheer influx of patients. They cannot provide the best level of care anymore. Having a high care ICU bed means nothing, if you cannot staff it. A good mine working in one of those emergency rooms in Bavaria wrote a few ago...
"I'm taking one patient down to the basement in every shift, sometimes more than one. All of them in the last weeks have been unvaccinated COVID cases. We are trying to block out the personal toll this takes, but many of us will quit this job over the next few months because we cannot bare it anymore."
, because "specific" it ain't.
