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Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

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Re: Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

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Unfortunately, I don't think any additional evidence will convince vaccine skeptics of the safety of mRNA vaccines

Exactly. The "skepticism" was always the point, always the tail wagging the dog.

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Re: Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

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Unfortunately, I don't think any additional evidence will convince vaccine skeptics of the safety of mRNA vaccines

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If the results were that getting the COVID vaccine was going to give you a 70% increased chance of death from COVID I would be outraged, and also quite confused as the real life evidence definitely doesn't point in that direction.

That's the problem with conspiracy theories, as the evidence piles up against them the counterfactual becomes increasingly ridiculous until you're out in the cold with a bunch of nutjobs.

Re: Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

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>Vaccinated individuals were older than unvaccinated individuals (mean [SD] age, 38.0 [11.8] years vs 37.1 [11.4] years), more frequently women (11 688 603 [51.3%] vs 2 876 039 [48.5%]) and had more cardiometabolic comorbidities (2 126 250 [9.3%] vs 464 596 [7.8%]). This is interesting because of "supposed" cardiovascular effects of the vaccine that many folks were worried about. Even more confounding is the gender d…

> First, individuals who choose vaccination may differ from those who do not, potentially introducing confounding bias.

It's very hard to interpret this data given the massive confounder of "antivaxxers are suspicious of healthcare and take more risks".

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