"Randomized controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines (RR=0.37, 95%CI: 0.19-0.70) but not from the mRNA vaccines (RR=1.03, 95%CI 0.63-1.71)"
I suspected this all along: Whose lives the mRNA vaccines were saving? #Pfizer and #Moderna's RCTs included largely young and middle aged adults unlikely to die from Covid.
"For (the Adenovirus vector vaccines), for every 100 deaths in the unvaccinated, there are only 37 deaths among the vaccinated... For the mRNA vaccines... For every 100 deaths among the unvaccinated, there are 103 deaths among the vaccinated"
"For the mRNA vaccines, there was a reduction in Covid deaths but an increase in cardiovascular deaths, but neither was statistically significant....
For the adenovirus-vector vaccines, there were statistically significant decreases in both Covid and cardiovascular deaths..."
"The mRNA vaccines were approved based on a reduction in symptomatic infections instead of mortality. That Pfizer and Moderna did not design their RCTs to determine whether the vaccines reduced mortality is inexcusable, as they could easily have done so."
"If #Pfizer and #Moderna want to continue to sell these vaccines, we should demand that they conduct a proper randomized clinical trial that proves that the vaccines reduce mortality...
government(s) should stop mandating vaccines when RCTs show a null result for mortality."
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In support of #Russia's mil operation in #Ukraine, the Sichuan bureau chief of the People's Daily writes: "#Putin's military action against Ukraine is a containment of Ukraine's anti-Russianism, a counterattack against #NATO's eastward expansion, and a challenge to #US hegemony."
The author also defends closer #Russia-#China cooperation: "back-to-back strategic partnership between China and Russia...has become an important cornerstone of China's national security and diplomatic strategy..." mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7lj9-0_dc6Hp… h/t @ArtyomLukin
This argument, from #China, in support of Russia's military operation in #Ukraine, is encompassing and addresses the war at many levels, including the moral level. #Russia
#Biden, April 21, the day #Russia declared #Mariupol liberated: “There is no evidence yet that Mariupol has completely fallen” #BorisJohnson, April 22, from India:"#Putin "is very close to securing a land bridge in Mariupol now...We just have to be realistic about that.”#Ukraine
"For President #Biden, of course, there is good enough reason why the war should continue as a forever war. The war rallies Europe behind the #US’ weakening transatlantic leadership."
"The #Sarmat is a direct response to the...American "missile defence shield" based both on ships & on land (mainly in Poland & Romania). Its entire design is aimed at defeating the American interception capability and thus restoring Russia to parity in nuclear deterrence"
#Sarmat can carry several bombs at the same time destined for different locations, MIRVs (Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle) in technical terms...
"#Ukraine's army was undermined by the corruption of its cadres...in the March/April 2014 recall of reservists, 70 percent did not show up for the first session, 80 percent for the second, 90 percent for the third, and 95 percent for the fourth." thepostil.com/the-military-s…
"In Oct/Nov 2017, 70% of conscripts did not show up for the recall campaign. This is not counting suicides & desertions (often over to the autonomists)...Young Ukrainians refused to fight in the Donbass & preferred emigration, which explains...partially the demographic deficit"
"The Ukrainian Ministry of Def turned to #NATO to help make its armed forces more 'attractive.' I was asked by NATO to participate in a program to restore the image of the Ukrainian armed forces. But this is a long-term process and the Ukrainians wanted to move quickly." #Ukraine
"The deep Indian strategic empathy toward #Russia is rooted in #India’s post-colonial heritage, a strong and understandable anti-Western sentiment that is largely the consequence of British colonial rule."
"Indian public discourse on the Ukrainian crisis today reveals a rare consensus in a country where the polity is sharply divided on most issues...and there have been few protests within #India of any significance in support of #Ukraine."