✝️ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Dave Burton Profile picture
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Jul 3, 2022, 8 tweets

1/7》Yesterday I read a shockingly misleading Epoch Times article. Here's my letter to the editors and the article's two authors, complaining about the misinformation in the article:

sealevel.info/Untruthful_Epo…

facebook.com/ncdave4life/po…

2/7》The Epoch Times headline, “Vaccination Increases Risk of COVID-19 Infection,” is a plain lie. The study reported no such thing.

The two Omicron strains considered in this study were BA.1 and BA.2. This is the most important finding which the study reported: …

3/7》"Previous infection [and] vaccination [both] showed strong effectiveness (>90%) against severe, critical, or fatal Covid-19 due to BA.1 infection [and] strong effectiveness (>70%) against severe, critical, or fatal Covid-19 due to BA.2 infection."
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

4/7》They also reported that:

1. The combination of vaccination plus previous infection provided stronger protection than either alone.

5/7》And:
2. Vaccination alone, more than six months prior, with no booster, provided no detectable reduction in risk of subsequent mild symptomatic infection by an Omicron strain.

6/7》And:
3. Either vaccination with a recent booster or previous infection reduced risk of subsequent mild symptomatic infection by an Omicron strain by about 50%.

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