Thread by @USMortality

A new study, published by @CDCgov, claims that all-cause mortality is lower among #Covid19 vaccinated.

This is a complete lie - good thing the authors delivered prove in their study!

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

After excluding Covid-19 deaths, they found that the standardized mortality rate was:
- Pfizer: 0.35
- Moderna: 0.34
- Unvaccinated: 1.11

How can this be? Excluding Covid19 these number should have been roughly equal!!

The real question is, why do the authors make all these "mental gymnastics" when simply calculating an all-cause standardized mortality rate by vaccinated vs unvaccinated groups would have been sufficient?

If we simply sum up the deaths reported in the study by vaxx status and compare it to unvaxxed, we can see that roughly the same amount of people died in each group. (The small differences are likely due to chance)

Unfortunately many of the unvaccinated were excluded, after they had received their vaccine. Hence this is not a true/valid comparison... But it raises serious questions!

If it is so clear, why does the CDC not simply publish these numbers:
- All cause mortality by age/vaxx ??

Calculated it by age group too...

Disclaimer: This is not representative... But it shows, that there's likely no or possibly very small benefit....

The authors of the study also write that the reason for the much lower all-cause mortality risk in vaccinated population is because they are generally healthier...

While this completely goes against common knowledge - we know that many 100% healthy people do not take the vaxx.

We can also see that in the data by CDC itself!
Vaccinated people were 2x more likely to have an underlying COVID19 health risk, than unvaccinated!

BTW: First tweet should read:

"good thing the authors delivered proof in their study" :)

Here's the summary by Prof. Shahar:

https://twitter.com/prof_shahar/status/1452038614238449666?s=20