Context: Bunch of folks are misunderstanding this comment to mean that vaccines are ~1% effective, but the absolute risk reduction is misleading too. The background rate of COVID was 0.9% in the Pfizer control group, and 0.06% for vaccinated. Huge drop.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1384640839020736512
Absolute risk reduction just isn't a measure of efficacy; it depends on the study protocols. Fewer people get infected over shorter studies. And authors of the paper admit that relative risk reductions have held up in Israel close to 95%.
Second: there are no fetal cell lines at all used in the production of the mRNA vaccines. And the cell lines used to test the vaccines were derived from fetuses aborted decades ago. In vitro testing on existing cell lines simply does not promote abortion. firstthings.com/web-exclusives…
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