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23 Mar, 3 tweets, 2 min read
#FactCheck
Claim: According to NBC, "In Johnson & Johnson's trials, the company's [#COVID19 #vaccine] was found to be 74 percent effective against asymptomatic infections."

Ruling: UNSUPPORTED and MISSING CONTEXT.

1/3
msn.com/en-us/health/m…
As noted by the FDA, no statistically significant reduction in asymptomatic infections was demonstrated up to 29 days post-vaccination. Significant differences were found after 29 days, but the sample size was small with subjects not evenly distributed across study sites.

2/3
As the FDA emphasizes, "There is uncertainty about the interpretation of these data and definitive conclusions cannot be drawn at this time."[2]

In conclusion, NBC is spreading #VaccineMisinformation.

3/3
fda.gov/media/146217/d…

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Jeremy R. Hammond Profile picture
6 Mar
#FactCheck
Claim: Johnson & Johnson's #COVID19 #vaccine has been shown to be 100% effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. (Source: Berkshire Vaccination Collaborative)

Ruling: FALSE.

1/7
getvaccinatedberkshires.org
Available data from ongoing phase 3 clinical trials do not demonstrate these claimed benefits. Berkshire Vaccination Collaborative is spreading #VaccineMisinformation.

2/7
Risk of hospitalization was not a primary endpoint measured in the study. In a post hoc analysis, there were 2 hospitalizations in the vaccine group two weeks after vaccination, falsifying the claim that it is 100% effective at preventing hospitalization.

3/7
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Jeremy R. Hammond Profile picture
5 Mar
#FactCheck
Claim: @aaronecarroll in @nytimes says the Pfizer and Moderna #COVID19 #vaccines are "approved" and "proven" to prevent hospitalizations and death.

Ruling: FALSE. New York Times is spreading #VaccineMisinformation.

1/5
nytimes.com/2021/02/13/opi…
There are no FDA-approved vaccines for COVID-19.

2/5
fda.gov/media/144638/d…
Data from clinical trials are limited and do not prove that the vaccines are effective for preventing hospitalization and death. The evidence that the Pfizer vaccine prevents hospitalization is of "low certainty" and for death "very low certainty".

3/5
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
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Jeremy R. Hammond Profile picture
9 Jan
The total number of hospitalizations in 2020 "with" (not necessarily FOR) #COVID19 is within the range of annual hospitalizations FOR #influenza estimated by the CDC. (Thread continues...)

h/t Marjorie, a member of my reader community
The CDC estimates between 140,000 and 810,000 hospitalizations occur annually for flu (it's a range because numbers vary widely year to year).
cdc.gov/flu/about/burd…
This December 30 @nytimes article states that "more than 670,000 Americans have been hospitalized with the disease this year".

(Note the precise "with" not "for" there.)

nytimes.com/2020/12/30/opi…
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Jeremy R. Hammond Profile picture
6 Jan
This @nytimes article is disgracefully deceptive. It is pure #propaganda serving to manufacture consent for #COVID19 #vaccines by deceiving about what science tells us about the #HerdImmunity threshold and the vaccine's effect on transmission.
nytimes.com/2020/12/24/hea…
The @nytimes presents the figure of 60% as the most conservative of estimates, going up to 90% (which, absurdly, would put #SARSCoV2 at the contagiousness level of measles) when in fact scientists have also estimated that the #HerdImmunity threshold could be far lower.
For example, this preprint study estimated that the #HerdImmunity threshold could be as low as the range of 10% - 20%:
doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…
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Jeremy R. Hammond Profile picture
2 Jan
"His concern — that a Covid vaccine is potentially unsafe, and hasn’t been properly tested — is widespread, and dangerously wrong."

By making that statement, @drkerrymeltzer, you are implicitly claiming that...
... the #COVID19 #vaccines that have received emergency use authorization have been adequately studied such that we have scientific proof that they have no potential to cause harm.

But you are the one who is wrong and irresponsibly spreading dangerous misinformation.
As @RobertKennedyJr rightly notes, we do not have adequate data from the trials to be able to meaningfully claim that they are "safe". The data do not show that they prevent severe disease, hospitalization, death, or transmission. We have no data on long-term effects.
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28 Nov 20
Here is how the #COVID19 #lockdown regime in my home state of #Michigan is engaging in institutionalized scientific fraud, justifying authoritarian measures on the basis of nonsensical anti-science policies resulting in uninterpretable data. (1/9) Image
Here is the #Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) "COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures" dated September 2020: (2/9)
michigan.gov/documents/mdhh…
First, it shows plainly that state health officials are equating any positive PCR test with a "COVID-19" case, even though the detection of viral RNA by itself does not tell you whether the person is infectious or has (or has ever had) the disease caused by #SARSCoV2. (3/9) ImageImageImageImage
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