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"You can call it a lie by omission":
Florida health officials deleted key data and statistics from a state analysis on the safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, falsely making them appear unsafe for young men, according to draft versions of the analysis obtained by the Tampa Bay Times through public records requests.
The final analysis, which was widely criticized for its poor quality and dubious conclusions, was the basis for a statewide recommendation by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last October that young men, ages 18 to 39, should not receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The analysis—posted on the Florida Department of Health's website with no authors listed—claimed to find "an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination."
Ladapo, who has a history of fearmongering about COVID-19 vaccines, touted the analysis, saying in a press release at the time that "these are important findings that should be communicated to Floridians."
But according to draft versions of the analysis, the state epidemiologists who worked on the report came to entirely different conclusions.
The draft version contained data that showed that getting COVID-19 posed a far greater risk of cardiac-related deaths than that from mRNA vaccines. Specifically, the incidence of cardiac-related deaths from infection was more than 10 times higher than from the vaccine in people ages 18 to 24 and more than five times higher for people 25 to 39. This data is in line with many peer-reviewed, published studies but was omitted entirely from the final analysis announced by Ladapo.
Also omitted was a sensitivity analysis that showed that the risk of cardiac-related deaths in young men was not significant. The final version drew flak for not including a sensitivity analysis, with the core conclusion of risk in young men hinging on just 20 deaths. A sensitivity analysis is a means to essentially evaluate the robustness of a finding, and it was present in three versions of the draft analysis but not in the final one.
[...] Overall, the draft versions of the analysis written by state epidemiologists supported the use of mRNA. "The risk associated with COVID-19 infection clearly outweighs any potential risks associated with mRNA vaccination," one version states.
Matt Hitchings, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, who also reviewed the drafts for the Times, told the outlet that the excluded data was akin to academic dishonesty. "You can call it a lie by omission," he said.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RedGreen on Wednesday April 12, @11:28PM (4 children)
"something closer to a 50% death rate."
I not ashamed to admit it I have been thinking the same, though I think a 1 in 10 fatality rate would have had the assholes among us following the guidance. That and it not be killing off grandma and grandpa mostly, but the teens, 20 years olds that would have got the morons attention too.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Thursday April 13, @10:05AM (3 children)
The antivaxxers have the luxury of 70-100 years of vaccines mostly eradicating all the old cripplers and killers so they can follow their various conspiracy theories without having to worry about suffering or dying from polio, or rubella, or tetanus, or diptheria, or ... . My neighbour still remembers classmates in iron lungs and metal leg braces because of polio, he's as pro-vax as you can get because he's seen first-hand what happens without the vaccines.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Thursday April 13, @11:51PM (2 children)
"The antivaxxers have the luxury of 70-100 years of vaccines mostly eradicating all the old cripplers and killers"
You give them to easy an out, the older ones like that piece of shit Kennedy Jr. who is a few years older than me certainly seen it when a child.
I know I did around here though being born with a silver spoon in his mouth may have insulated him from the realities around him I do not give him or his other murdering bastards spreaders and supporters any out for the people they are killing with their garbage they spread.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 3, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Friday April 14, @03:34AM (1 child)
My 9th grade English teacher was a polio victim. Walked with a cane and looked like she was in her 60s, though she was actually in her 40s.
I got immunity to chicken pox the hard way. Had there been a vaccine back then, I so would have taken that over the week of misery the disease put me through. The 4th day was the worst. Spent that day naked on my hands and knees, because standing up was more exhausting. I was feverish, aching, dog tired, brain fogged, and the thought of food was nauseating. I so wanted to sleep, but couldn't thanks to even the softest sheets aggravating the maddening itchiness. Hands and knees I found the best compromise that kept as much of my skin as possible out of contact with cloth in combination with being the least tiring and easiest position. No, soaking in the tub did not help relieve the itchiness. Slathered calamine lotion on myself over and over, more to keep my hands occupied so I wouldn't scratch at the pustules and scar myself for life. Its help in soothing the itches was minimal. I couldn't even play video games or read, as that took more concentration than I could muster, and as for TV, there weren't hundreds of channels back then. The last thing I wanted to watch was some horrible daytime soap opera.
Perhaps the young anti-vaxxer deserves a very little sympathy, but the older anti-vaxxer person is the sort of imbecile who can somehow forget how crappy it was to lose a week or more to severe illness, even thought they personally suffered through it. Chicken pox was regarded as a light weight among the childhood diseases because it rarely killed or left a person disabled for life. The rest of them, such as polio, are not trifles and often did kill or disable.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RedGreen on Friday April 14, @05:00AM
I had what I like to call the year from hell. In grade seven it started with a sprain of the ankle so bad I could not walk for a month, the teachers sent the school work home so I could do it from there. Then the diseases started the mumps not once but twice because the side of my neck that was not swollen from the first infection got jealous and decided it was its turn. The came the measles and not to be outdone the German measles had to have its turn, next onto to scarlatina and of course the chicken pox like you, plus there were a couple of others I have forgotten now along with the usual colds and flus. I missed over half the year of school and more than a few times I was sitting in a desk in the hall when there as the teachers did not want to take the chance I was still infectious. It was a fun time. And a few years ago while getting my heart fixed I got to relive the chickenpox episode by having it reappear as the shingles every bit as painful and annoying as the first time around with that god damn rash you get.
These sub-human morons who go out of their way to have people suffer these painful preventable diseases deserve to be shot and pissed on and treated like the fucking piece of murdering garbage they are. And their slimy apologists bastards who make excuses for them to continue on their ways deserve it too, I have lost all tolerance for any of the shit they spew. They want to murder off the people fine let us kill them first before they get their chance to do it to us with all that foolishness.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen