{"id":235203,"date":"2023-05-15T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=235203"},"modified":"2023-05-11T03:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:34:49","slug":"covid-vaccines-and-mortality-the-rct-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/covid-vaccines-and-mortality-the-rct-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Vaccines and Mortality: The RCT Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Age-standardized mortality in Germany and Sweden\u00a0 (Mortality Watch)<\/p><\/div>\n

Did COVID vaccines really reduce all-cause mortality?
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May 2023 – <\/em>A new Danish study<\/a>, published in iScience, re-analyzed the original covid vaccine clinical trials and concludes that adenovector covid vaccines (AstraZeneca and Janssen), but not mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna), may reduce non-covid mortality and all-cause mortality.<\/p>\n

This new study has again baffled both vaccine promoters and vaccine skeptics, since adenovector vaccines had a worse safety profile and lower effectiveness than mRNA vaccines. In many countries, adenovector vaccines weren\u2019t even approved or were quickly removed from the market.<\/p>\n

But the new study was already debunked<\/a> one year ago, when it first appeared as a preprint. The supposedly positive effect was significant in only one trial<\/a>, the Janssen trial, and the effect was due to incomplete data<\/a> and a miscategorization<\/a> of deaths by the study authors.<\/p>\n

In reality, none of the clinical trials showed a significant effect concerning all-cause mortality, covid mortality, or non-covid mortality. This was to be expected since none of the trials were designed and powered to measure such a mortality effect: they were only about \u201ccases\u201d.<\/p>\n

From this, many vaccine skeptics concluded that covid vaccines didn\u2019t reduce covid mortality or all-cause mortality. In reality, covid vaccines strongly reduced<\/a> covid mortality (initially by a factor of 10 to 20), reduced<\/a> all-cause mortality and restored<\/a> life expectancy in many countries (see chart above).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, barely one year after the start of vaccination, the likely synthetic<\/a> omicron variant showed up and greatly reduced<\/a> vaccine protection. Vaccine manufacturers produced updated \u201cbivalent omicron vaccines\u201d, but due to immune imprinting, these were hardly more effective.<\/p>\n

Without omicron, both covid lethality and vaccine protection would have remained much higher.<\/p>\n

The real scandal<\/strong> is that covid vaccine manufacturers appear to have suppressed or excluded<\/a> some serious and even deadly vaccine adverse events during their clinical trials. If these adverse events had been acknowledged, covid vaccines would have received emergency use authorizations only for high-risk groups and would likely never have received full market authorization.<\/p>\n

This would have been the rational decision anyway, but it would have destroyed both the pre-announced global vaccine passport agenda<\/a> and billions of dollars in profits for Big Pharma.<\/p>\n

The even bigger scandal, of course, is that the novel coronavirus is a synthetic virus<\/a> \u2013 engineered almost certainly in the US, not in China \u2013 that was released either accidentally or deliberately.<\/p>\n

Study<\/h4>\n