Thread by @ClaudeSteve6

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Note to Pr Konstantin Beck from @UniLuzern :
As you couldn't rely on antivaxxer Sucharit Bhakdi to write your book, you can't rely on people insured in @Helsana with a cancer treatment (ATC Index L01) to suppose covid vaccines increased number of cancers in Switzerland.

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The variation of people taking antineoplastic drugs inside Helsana insurance can be due to several factors:
- more people with these drugs coming in Helsana in 2021?
- delays of 2020 diagnoses?
- new drugs on the market?
Etc.
Helsana talked about costs, not rise of cancers.

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Is Pr Beck's graphe correct? Yes it is. They are from Helsana reports
from 2013 to 2022.


But, in fact these numbers weren't supposed to be used for anything else than a cost/person calculation. We can't extrapolate to cancers in the whole population. helsana.ch/de/helsana-gru…

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Pr Konstantin Beck should learn what is correlation and causality.
Let's look at the US data. They are a bit more vaccinated than 🇨🇭. Is there a +100% surge of cancers? NO.
Just a bit more than expected. Then no correlation with vaccination rate.

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The graph is from this article.
A quote:
"Health experts have suggested that people missing cancer screenings and doctor's appointments due to the COVID-19 pandemic may cause cancer rates to rise in the coming years."
abcnews.go.com/Health/million…

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The statements of Pr Beck are totally irresponsible. This disinformation is spreading by antivaccine activists.

Scientific publications estimate vaccines saved million of lives in the world.
@UniLuzern should communicate about it as it's logo appears in the Pr Beck's graph.

@UniLuzern 7/n
Btw it's not the first time he tells bullshit, as a pure corona denialer.

@UniLuzern 8/8
I'm so tired of all this bullshit while people are filling hospitals this winter due to another covid-19 wave cause of too low booster uptake. I'm done.

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