Post : Do COVID Shots Increase Your Risk of Getting COVID?
URL : [link removed]
Posted : March 29, 2024 at 6:41 am
Author : Vincent Iannelli, MD
Tags : abusing FOIA requests, Cleveland Clinic Study, covid vaccine effectiveness, Ron DeSantis, Santa Clara County, Steve Kirsch, vaccinated vs unvaccinated
Categories : Vaccine Fact Check
Why do some people think that COVID shots increase your risk of getting COVID?
[link removed] Data from Santa Clara County doesn't actually show that COVID shots increase your risk of getting COVID. Whoops!
The usual suspects...
Do COVID Shots Increase Your Risk of Getting COVID?
Instead of his usual survey shenanigans ( [link removed] ) , this time, Steve Kirsch ( [link removed] ) demonstrates how anti-vaccine folks abuse FOIA requests ( [link removed] ) ...
Apparently, Steve Kirsch ( [link removed] ) sent an FOIA request to the Santa Clara County Health Department and received information about folks diagnosed with COVID, including whether or not they were "vaccinated."
[link removed] To figure out if COVID shots increase your risk of getting COVID, don't you need some data about the whole population, including the vaccinated people who didn't get COVID?
After looking at this data, Steve Kirsch ( [link removed] ) concluded that "So the percentage of people who were diagnosed with COVID (98% or more) was higher than the percentage of people who got the vaccine (under 95%). In other words, the vaccine made you more likely to get COVID instead of 10X less likely that they claimed in the clinical trials."
What's the real explanation?
[link removed] The monovalent booster dose was introduced in Sept 2021 "to enhance or restore protection which might have waned over time after primary series vaccination." Not all of the folks who are considered "vaccinated" had a booster dose though.
If you look through the extensive data available in the Santa Clara County Health Department COVID dashboards ( [link removed] ) , you will see that while most folks got the primary series, far fewer got the booster doses or updated COVID vaccine.
So if more vaccinated people got COVID, it was simply because there were more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people to get COVID - "vaccinated people" who were not necessarily up-to-date with the latest COVID vaccines.
Looking even more closely at the data from Santa Clara County ( [link removed] ) though, despite how Kirsch ( [link removed] ) "analyzed ( [link removed] ) " the data, you can easily see that unvaccinated people were more likely to get sick with COVID.
[link removed] The average case rates are highest in those who are unvaccinated in Santa Clara County - and everywhere else ( [link removed] ) . Thanks to René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH ( [link removed] ) for help creating this data visualization!
Not surprisingly, that COVID vaccines don't increase your risk of developing COVID has been fact checked plenty of times already:
* Cleveland Clinic Study Did Not Show Vaccines Increase COVID-19 Risk ( [link removed] )
* Vaccine study that has people worried is being misinterpreted ( [link removed] )
* The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more at risk of a new COVID variant than the unvaccinated ( [link removed] )
* Fact Check: CDC did not say COVID vaccines increase susceptibility to new variant ( [link removed] )
* Social media posts misrepresent CDC data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in teens ( [link removed] )
* Fact check: COVID-19 vaccination decreases chances of hospitalization, contrary to post's implication ( [link removed] )
* Vaccinated People Not More Susceptible to COVID-19 Than Unvaccinated ( [link removed] )
* Vaccination does not increase the likelihood of Covid-19 infection ( [link removed] )
* Widespread Claims Misrepresent Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines ( [link removed] )
* Fact Check - DeSantis said boosters make COVID-19 infection more likely ( [link removed] )
Whoops indeed!
And no, the exact same thing didn't happen in Australia, as Steve Kirsch ( [link removed] ) claims. Something that has also been fact checked extensively.
* High numbers of vaccinated hospitalized in Australia not evidence of higher risk ( [link removed] )
* High COVID-19 vaccination rates in New South Wales mean that those admitted to hospital are likely to have been vaccinated ( [link removed] )
* Claims linking COVID vaccinations to ICU admissions are misleading ( [link removed] )
* Fact check: COVID-19 vaccination decreases chances of hospitalization, contrary to post's implication ( [link removed] )
* NSW COVID data details lost on former paramedic ( [link removed] )
Are these folks even trying anymore?
> "A growing body of research indicates that these vaccines not only reduce the incidence of infection but also significantly decrease all-cause mortality among vaccinated individuals compared to those who are unvaccinated."
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> Vaccine Victory: How COVID-19 shots slash all-cause mortality and outshine misinformation
I mean, besides trying to keep folks from getting vaccinated and protected?
More on the Effectiveness of COVID Vaccines
* Did COVID Vaccines Cause More Deaths Than They Saved? ( [link removed] )
* How Misinformation About Vaccines is Created? ( [link removed] )
* Santa Clara County COVID Vaccinations Dashboard ( [link removed] )
* Santa Clara County COVID Cases and Deaths Dashboard ( [link removed] )
* Studies Show Boosted Immunity Against Omicron with Booster Doses ( [link removed] )
* COVID-19 Booster Enhances Protection, Contrary to ‘Immune Fatigue’ Claims ( [link removed] )
* Effectiveness of Bivalent Boosters against Severe Omicron Infection ( [link removed] )
* The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients ( [link removed] )
* Hospitalization rates confirm COVID vaccines' benefits ( [link removed] )
* How We Know That the COVID-19 Vaccines Work ( [link removed] )
* More evidence vaccination reduces risk of long COVID ( [link removed] )
* Odds of Hospitalization for COVID-19 After 3 vs 2 Doses of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine by Time Since Booster Dose ( [link removed] )
* How vaccine safety data is constantly misused and what you can do ( [link removed] )
* Vaccine Victory: How COVID-19 shots slash all-cause mortality and outshine misinformation ( [link removed] )
* A Timeline of Events in the COVID-19 Pandemic ( [link removed] )
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