Vaccine efficacy, effectiveness and protection
A vaccine’s efficacy is measured in a controlled clinical trial and is based on how many people who got vaccinated developed the ‘outcome of interest’ (usually disease) compared with how many people who got the placebo (dummy vaccine) developed the same outcome. Once the study is complete, the numbers of sick people in each group are compared, in order to calculate the relative risk of getting sick depending on whether or not the subjects received the vaccine. From this we get the efficacy – a measure of how much the vaccine lowered the risk of getting sick. If a vaccine has high efficacy, a lot fewer people in the group who received the vaccine got sick than the people in the group who received the placebo.
So, for example, let’s imagine a vaccine with a proven efficacy of 80%. This means that – out of the people in the clinical trial – those who received the vaccine were at a 80% lower risk of developing disease than the group who received the placebo. This is calculated by comparing the number of cases of disease in the vaccinated group versus the placebo group. An efficacy of 80% does not mean that 20% of the vaccinated group will become ill.
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Consent is not consent if it is coerced: beer, pot, lottery tickets
Consent is not consent if it is coerced. Over the last 10 months incentives to take an investigational COVID vaccine have escalated from free pizza and beer, to marijuana, concert tickets and lottery tickets. Now it’s the removal of basic freedoms: You need a vaccine to take a train or a plane, attend post secondary school, or to keep your job.
Yukon’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is still slowly climbing but one Whitehorse business is hoping to speed things up a bit, with some cold beer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whitehorse-polarity-brewing-vaccine-free-beer-promotion-1.6009295
‘Joints for Jabs:’ Company offering cannabis prizes to fully vaccinated Manitobans.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/delta-9-joints-for-jabs-1.6075707
Insurers, food businesses and even tech companies are unveiling promotions aimed at convincing people to get the jab in exchange for savings and giveaways.
Canadian companies offer freebies, discounts to customers vaccinated against COVID-19
Vitamin D Studies
A Spanish randomized controlled trial found a 96% reduction in the risk of requiring intensive care in patients receiving high-dose vitamin D (100,000 IU).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
Another randomized trial in Spain with 930 hospitalized patients found a reduction in ICU treatment of 80% and in mortality of 60% in patients receiving high-dose vitamin D.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318
A study in a French nursing home found an 89% decrease in mortality in residents who had received high-dose vitamin D either shortly before or during covid-19 disease.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602030296X
A retrospective British study of approximately 1000 hospitalized covid patients found an 80% reduction in mortality with high-dose vitamin D.
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3799
A large Israeli study found a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and covid-19 severity.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.20188268v1
Another Israeli study observed a significant decrease of the odds for hospitalization for COVID-19 patients treated with either vitamin D or magnesium citrate.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.13.20211953v3.full-text
[2018] Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
The team found that, over the course of their lives, the unvaccinated birds shed far more of the least virulent strains into the environment, whereas the vaccinated birds shed far more of the most virulent strains. The findings suggest that the Marek’s vaccine encourages more dangerous viruses to proliferate. This increased virulence might then give the viruses the means to overcome birds’ vaccine-primed immune responses and sicken vaccinated flocks.
Virus czar calls to begin readying for eventual 4th vaccine dose
Israel’s national coronavirus czar on Saturday called for the country to begin making preparations to eventually administer fourth doses of the coronavirus vaccine. […] This is our life from now on, in waves,” he said.
Ivermectin Studies
The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review article | The Journal of Antibiotics:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5
The broad spectrum host-directed agent ivermectin as an antiviral for SARS-CoV-2:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577703/
A review of the anti-viral effects of ivermectin | African Journal of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology:
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcem/article/view/209853
Ivermectin: a systematic review from antiviral effects to COVID-19 complementary regimen | The Journal of Antibiotics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-020-0336-z
Quantitative proteomics reveals a broad‐spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin, benefiting for COVID‐19 treatment – Li – 2021 – Journal of Cellular Physiology – Wiley Online Library:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcp.30055
Ivermectin Docks to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-binding Domain Attached to ACE2:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652439/
And the rest of the other Ivermectin studies and meta-analysis:
WHO asks wealthy nations to hold off on Covid vaccine boosters at least through September
“The entire world is in the middle of this and as we’ve seen with the emergence of variant after variant, we cannot get out of it unless the whole world gets out of it together, and with the huge disparity in vaccination coverage, we’re simply not going to be able to achieve that,” Aylward said.
