The Pfizer COVID vaccine adult trial is supposed to end on Feb 8, 2024. But how long did it really last?
138 days.
That's the average time from 1st injection until subjects were unblinded and the placebo group offered the jab, based on trial data from the FDA FOIA release.🧵
How many of the 20,971 subjects originally in the placebo group chose to remain blinded?
1,080
How many of the unblinded chose not to get vaccinated?
1,336
So just shy of 12% of the placebo group remained unjabbed and/or unblinded as of March 2021.
How many of the 20,403 subjects in the treatment group remained unblinded as of March, 2020?
Across 21 countries, prejudice against people who didn't get COVID vaccines is 2.5 times worse than prejudice against middle eastern migrants -- a group that is universally discriminated against. But the demonization of the unvaccinated is nothing new.
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In a February pre-print, "Prejudice Against the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Danish researchers surveyed 10K people in 21 countries, finding significant levels of prejudice against people who hadn't had a COVID jab. psyarxiv.com/t2g45/
They measured prejudice by asking if respondents agreed with this statement: "I would be unhappy if this person married one of my close relatives." On average people were 2.5X more likely to agree with that statement when applied to the unvaccinated than Middle-Eastern migrants.
Video of my comments to the FDA's VRBPAC meeting on more boosters, in 2 parts:
Pt 1: You need to ask yourselves: why did only half of all eligible Israelis go back for the 2nd booster? Could it be due to adverse events experienced by them or people they know from previous doses?
What you didn’t hear about today from the Ministry of Health is a survey they conducted last fall of about 2,000 Israelis 3 to 4 weeks after they received the first booster. The survey asked about adverse events they had experienced.
The adverse event rate per million doses calculated from the survey shows that people experienced unacceptably high rates of severe adverse events like bell’s palsy, hospitalization, and seizures.
The Israeli Ministry of Health released the results of an actual survey of adverse events experienced by people following receipt of a booster dose (#3), and it is absolutely devastating. For major points, read on. For my full analysis, see here: jackanapes.substack.com/p/the-israeli-…
Some top-line numbers of adverse events reported 3-4 weeks following booster vaccination.
Per million doses:
5,000 Hospitalizations
1,464 Herpes Zoster cases
5,268 Bell's Palsy cases
1,952 Seizures/Convulsions
56,567 Menstrual Disruptions
If we apply the reporting rates to the US, we can estimate the number of events experienced by the 92 million Americans who got a booster. (The 2.8 million women expected to have experienced menstrual changes was too big to fit on the chart.)