- What if I told you that getting a COVID booster reduced your chance of death from COVID by 90%?
- Sounds pretty good.
- What if I told you that getting a COVID booster reduced your chance of death from any cause by 90%?
Except, wait, wat?
Is the COVID booster magic or something?
How does it reduce the cause of death by 90%?
Does it cure cancer?
Liver disease?
Heart attacks?...
In simplified form, the study claimed that COVID boosters reduced deaths from COVID by 90%. Great news!
Only Prasad took a ..deep dive into the research and discovered that deaths from all causes in the boosted group were about 90% lower, suggesting that some other factor was involved. Prasad couldn’t get the underlying data about the patients, but clearly, something was wrong with the population groups. Some non-random factors.
And boom! It looks like there is one: much of the non-boosted population was people in hospitals who did not receive the booster due to life-threatening conditions. This comes straight from the researchers’ response to Prasad.
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