We want to call your attention to how the news media often acts as a very effective marketing team for industry.
We have no idea whether this is intentional.
But take a look at this claim:
“The biotech company Moderna provided a summary of the side effects its vaccine can cause when it reported positive interim results for the vaccine in a press release.
Moderna’s vaccine, like Pfizer’s, is more than 90% effective.”
Notice how they jumped from “interim results” to the AUTHORITATIVE statement that the vaccine is “more than 90 effective?”
Those interim results were based on only NINETY-FIVE PEOPLE who got Covid, out of 30,000 in the trials.
Of those 95 people who got sick, only 5 had received the vaccine.
BUT. (There is always a “but.”)
They have no way of knowing how many people were EXPOSED to the virus, vaccine or no vaccine.
So we’d like to know: is it possible that the 95 people who got the placebo vaccine happened to have more susceptibility to the virus than others in the trials? Were they smokers? Did they have asthma? Were they older than than the average age being tested? Were they working out in the community, and therefore more likely to be exposed?
Of course, it is also entirely possible that the vaccine works as hoped, or even better than hoped. If so, we do heartily congratulate the scientists — and we would like to know how long they plan to track vaccine recipients to determine whether the vaccine increases risk of autoimmune disorders, or cancer, or infertility, or even genetic mutation.
Of course, if the trial subjects who received placebos are given the actual vaccine at the end of the trial (which is common practice in vaccine clinical trials), we might never know.