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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, 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.
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