… Stabell-Benn and her colleagues found no statistically meaningful evidence in the trial data that the mRNA vaccines reduced all-cause mortality. The numbers of deaths from other causes including cardiovascular deaths appear to be increased in this group, compensating for the beneficial effect of the vaccines on Covid. Stabell-Benn is keen to stress that the sample is relatively small and is calling for further investigation, and also that the study took place during very low levels of Covid, so the relative advantage of protection against Covid would have been smaller at that time compared to at other points in the pandemic.
Bear in mind, I’m just a former medical editor. I am medically literate. I’ve also had three lab courses in science. And my first success as a writer came when I was 15 and won a prize from Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences for a paper I submitted recounting my study of the microscopic inhabitants of a stagnant pond complete with photomicrographs that I took. Whether that justifies my skepticism of what the government and media tell us regarding Covid is an open question.
Skepticism is fine, and I've read both the article and the actual study with interest. It's also worth reading the comments which accompany the article.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm going to ask you a second time about your experience as a medical editor, since you repeatedly offer it as evidence of your medical literacy. For which specific publications or publishers did you work? For how long?