Study accidentally shows COVID jab doubles risk of death?

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With our last entry covering more data that the COVID-19 vaccines have negative effectiveness in terms of infections, we now come upon further evidence that this also applies to hospitalisations and deaths, due to another study (Butt et al.) published by Oxford University Press. Focussed more on the apparent ineffectiveness of anti-COVID drug molnupiravir, the offending data can be found in Figure 2, with the authors apparently unaware of the more concerning development. Source.

Looking at the control group (no molnupiravir - and these results are effectively unchanged if molnupiravir recipients are included), we see 429 hospitalisations and deaths from 27,053 ‘unvaccinated or primary series incomplete’ participants. That is 1.59%. We see 390 hospitalisations and deaths from 15,660 ‘primary series complete, no booster’ participants. That is 2.49%. We see 549 hospitalisations and deaths from 20,568 ‘primary series complete, booster’ participants. That is 2.67%. And since fans of the jab are so fond of relative risk rather than absolute risk (otherwise it would have been too obvious that the jabs could never have been particularly useful), 2.67/1.59=1.68, which means that it looks like getting fully vaccinated and boosted could nearly *double* your risk of hospitalisation or death, with - again - more jabs meaning more problems. Probably not the intended outcome for the billions of people who rolled up their sleeves.

Okay then.

Extra: Given that it is still early days, and COVID-19 continues to decline in severity as we learn more about the risks of the jabs, do you think we’re still going to be saying the jabs are ‘safe and effective’ for much longer? Especially when they are now apparently *increasing* the chance of infection, hospitalisation, and death, while seemingly causing non-COVID deaths as well?