How the dodgy statistics were done.
Norman Fenton explains how to make it look like a worthless medical treatment is safe and effective.
In Covid vaccination statistics around the world, people in the first fourteen days after vaccination are counted in the studies as unvaccinated, because apparently the vaccine doesn’t work in the first fourteen days.
Well it looks like it doesn’t work at all.
This video explains how this skews the statistics to make even a completely ineffective treatment with zero efficacy look effective.
Norman Fenton says on his website:
In assessing the efficacy of Covid vaccines in observational studies (such as in the large Israel study which claimed 95% efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine) it is now standard to assume that the vaccine takes 14 days to 'work' and hence to classify a person as 'unvaccinated' within 14 days of vaccination. But, as the previous example shows, such an approach inevitably exaggerates efficacy.
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The video also shows how vaccine effectiveness in observational trials is further exaggerated if the unvaccinated are less likely to get tested for the virus than the vaccinated (as happened in the Israel Pfizer study).
Joanne Nova’s article alerted me to the video and the links.
References
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356756711_Latest_statistics_on_England_mortality_data_suggest_systematic_mis-categorisation_of_vaccine_status_and_uncertain_effectiveness_of_Covid-19_vaccination DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.14176.20483
This freaky bit of statistical confirmation bias also demonstrates why the apparent vaccine efficacy gradually descends to its actual level of zero efficacy:
Nordström, Peter and Ballin, Marcel and Nordström, Anna, Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination Against Risk of Symptomatic Infection, Hospitalization, and Death Up to 9 Months: A Swedish Total-Population Cohort Study. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3949410 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3949410
https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-impact-of-misclassifying-deaths-in.html
This fact check was added to my fact check of the California Prison Study, which openly admitted included people in the first 14 days after vaccination in the unvaccinated group.