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A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical.
This 50-page study, which was published on The Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed CDC and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented.
The paper is co-authored by Dr. Stefan Baral, an epidemiology professor at Johns Hopkins University; surgeon Martin Adel Makary, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins known for his books exposing medical malfeasance, including “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Heath Care”; and Dr. Vinayak Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, who is a professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as the author of over 350 academic and peer-reviewed articles.
22,000 to 30,000 Previously Unaffected Young Adults Must be Vaccinated to Prevent Just 1 Hospitalization
The lack of effectiveness of the vaccines is a major concern to these researchers. Based on their analysis of the public data provided to the CDC, they estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 previously uninfected young adults would need to be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent just a single hospitalization.
Mandated Booster Shots Cause More Harm Than Good
But the documented lack of efficacy is only part of the problem. The researchers further found that per every one COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in young adults who had not previously been infected with COVID-19, the data show that 18 to 98 “serious adverse events” will be caused by the vaccinations themselves.
These events include up to three times as many booster-associated myocarditis in young men than hospitalizations prevented, and as many as 3,234 cases of other side effects so serious that they interfere with normal daily activities.
1) Lack of policymaking transparency. The scientists pointed out that no formal and scientifically rigorous risk-benefit analysis of whether boosters are helpful in preventing severe infections and hospitalizations exists for young adults.
2) Expected harm. A look at the currently available data shows that mandates will result in what the authors call a “net expected harm” to young people. This expected harm will exceed the potential benefit from the boosters.
3) Lack of efficacy. The vaccines have not effectively prevented transmission of COVID-19. Given how poorly they work—the authors call this “modest and transient effectiveness”—the expected harms caused by the boosters likely outweigh any benefits to public health.
4) No recourse for vaccine-injured young adults. Forcing vaccination as a prerequisite to attend college is especially problematic because young people injured by these vaccines will likely not be able to receive compensation for these injuries.
5) Harm to society. Mandates, the authors insisted, ostracize unvaccinated young adults, excluding them from education and university employment opportunities.
Covid-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: A risk-benefit assessment and five ethical arguments against mandates at universities
originally posted by: zandra
a reply to: nugget1
Totally agree with you.
Though the story is changing a bit. It is no longer about the known side effects and the extent to which they occur. Now it's about excess mortality. I hope that with the death of the queen, the new king doesn't throw a spanner in the works. He is a good friend of ... you know who ... And 96 of not ... the queen died by 'an unknown reason'. I hope England will continue to push for transparency in the numbers. I put all my trust in them.
originally posted by: Roedeer
And there it is. This is exactly the dance backwards that Aaargh and his ilk will use to walk back all of their previous assertions, every step of the way back now. As more of the truth becomes irrefutable, they will claim “Oh, I never said that part about that part, yada yada yada.” and, “Oh, those Harvard doctors’ aren’t saying what you see with your own eyes..they are saying something else.” Don’t fall for it. a reply to: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
Thank you for staying on top of all the latest vaccine news, v1rt! One day the whole picture will come into focus and one side will be eating crow - or crawling back under their rock, pretending they never showed their gullibility to the entire world.
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
originally posted by: zandra
a reply to: nugget1
Totally agree with you.
Though the story is changing a bit. It is no longer about the known side effects and the extent to which they occur. Now it's about excess mortality. I hope that with the death of the queen, the new king doesn't throw a spanner in the works. He is a good friend of ... you know who ... And 96 of not ... the queen died by 'an unknown reason'. I hope England will continue to push for transparency in the numbers. I put all my trust in them.
King Charles is actually the brainchild behind the great reset, not Klaus Schwab.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Roedeer
And there it is. This is exactly the dance backwards that Aaargh and his ilk will use to walk back all of their previous assertions, every step of the way back now. As more of the truth becomes irrefutable, they will claim “Oh, I never said that part about that part, yada yada yada.” and, “Oh, those Harvard doctors’ aren’t saying what you see with your own eyes..they are saying something else.” Don’t fall for it. a reply to: AaarghZombies
I'm anti mandate, and I've been pretty clear about agreeing that the primary reasons to vax under 30s is to stop transmission to older people.
you just know that I'm going to use this against you in the future, right?
originally posted by: TDDAgain
a reply to: AaarghZombies
you just know that I'm going to use this against you in the future, right?
What a nice way to disclose that you see this as a sort of fight or war. Very interesting wording too.
It's very telling, nice that you took of your mask now, though.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
I'm anti mandate, and I've been pretty clear about agreeing that the primary reasons to vax under 30s is to stop transmission to older people.