Wednesday, October 13, 2021

"CNN Takes Another Stab at My Best-Seller, by Dr. Joseph Mercola

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"August 4, 2021, CNN aired a hit piece on me based on a fabricated report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — a report that has since been refuted by Facebook itself.(1)

Note:
I have deleted a lot of Dr. Mercola's text refuting CNN's negative review by their "Fact Choker", covered in an earlier Dr. Mercola article here.  If a book gets a negative review by CNN, that is equivalent to a getting a negative review by a village idiot.  ... But there was some interesting information in the last two thirds of the article, and here it is:
Ye Editor

 ...   “The trials were designed specifically to succeed.


    Removing the placebo groups from vaccine trials will prevent accurate data from long term studies from being known. www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/969143015/long-term-studies-of-covid-19-vaccines-hurt-by-placebo-recipients-getting-immuni


    The experiments are continuing through 2027 as the FDA APPROVAL requires Pfizer to submit study results analyzing risk of myocarditis and pericarditis,

and risk to long-term infant development in pregnant women.

Study results reports will be submitted to the FDA for review on Oct 31, 2025 and May 31, 2027 respectively.

    Nearly 60% of gravely ill patients are fully vaccinated, while stating the Pfizer vaccine is just 39% effective.
 


Are COVID Shots Necessary?

... My next book, which will focus on the so-called COVID “vaccines,” will go into this question in great detail, but the fact of the matter is the shots are, by and large, unnecessary for most people, for the simple reason that most people aren’t at risk of dying from COVID-19.(7),(8),(9),(10),(11)

Data from a Wake Forest Baptist Health study(12),(13) suggest the overall death rate from COVID-19 is around 0.1%.(14)

 Stanford University’s disease prevention chairman Dr. John Ioannidis has calculated the infection fatality rate as being between 0.05% and 1%, with a median of 0.25%.

For those under the age of 45, the infection fatality rate is near zero,

and between the ages of 45 to 70, it’s between 0.05% and 0.3%.(15),(16)

Yet another study17 published in the Annals of Internal Medicine put the overall noninstitutionalized infection fatality rate at 0.26%.

People younger than 40 have an infection fatality rate of 0.01%,

while those 60 and older had a 1.71% risk of dying from the infection.

Now, if your risk of dying from COVID-19 is near zero,

even if the injection is 100% effective at preventing death,

you’re not getting any benefit since you weren’t at risk of dying in the first place.

This is not rocket science. ...

How Effective Are the COVID Shots, Really?

... A number of studies have also looked at the absolute risk reduction provided by the COVID shots, showing they’re near useless.

While, at the outset, vaccine makers all boasted very high effectiveness for their COVID shots, independent reviews suggest their claims were massively overstated from the get-go.

As it turns out, they’re all using one of the simplest and oldest statistical tricks in the book:

conflating relative and absolute risk reduction.

Pfizer, for example, claimed its mRNA shot was 95% effective.

How did they get that number?

In trials reportedly involving tens of thousands of people,

170 were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the trial.

Of those, 162 were in the placebo group and eight were in the COVID shot group.

From this, it is inferred that the shot prevented 154 out of 162 people from developing COVID-19.

That’s 95%.

However, this is the relative risk reduction.

The absolute risk reduction is actually less than 1%.(18)

When calculating absolute risk reduction, you compare the frequency of an outcome in the treatment group compared to untreated controls.

... This is the most accurate and helpful way to present data when you want people to be able to make an informed treatment choice;

 if you want to manipulate and deceive them, you would use the relative risk reduction.

Dr. Ron Brown published a paper detailing the problems with this kind of reporting bias specifically as it pertains to COVID-19 mRNA “vaccines.

” In “Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials”(19) Brown calculates the absolute risk reduction for Pfizer’s and Moderna’s injections,

based on their own clinical trial data, so that we can compare them to the relative risk reduction reported by these companies.

Here’s a summary:(20)

    Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine BNT162b2
— Relative risk reduction: 95.1%.
Absolute risk reduction: 0.7%

    Moderna vaccine mRNA-1273
— Relative risk reduction: 94.1%.
Absolute risk reduction 1.1%

As noted by Brown,
“Reporting absolute risk reduction measures is essential to prevent outcome reporting bias in evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy.”

If your risk of dying from COVID-19 is less than 1%, and your absolute risk reduction from the COVID shot is right around 1%,

that tells us the mathematical possibility of these COVID “vaccines” having a favorable impact on public health is zero.

In a July 1, 2021, commentary in The Lancet Microbe,(21) Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele and Michel Vaillant also argue for the use of absolute risk reduction when discussing vaccine efficacy with the public.

They too went through the calculations, coming up with the following:

    Pfizer/BioNTech
— Relative risk reduction: 95%.
Absolute risk reduction: 0.84%

    Moderna
— Relative risk reduction: 94%.
Absolute risk reduction: 1.2%

    Gamaleya (Sputnic V)
— Relative risk reduction: 91%.
Absolute risk reduction: 0.93%

    Johnson & Johnson
— Relative risk reduction: 67%.
Absolute risk reduction: 1.2%

    AstraZeneca/Oxford
— Relative risk reduction: 67%.
Absolute risk reduction: 1.3%

The Data Prove COVID Shots Are Not a Viable Answer

As you can see, the absolute risk reduction for all of these COVID shots is below 1.3% (and those numbers can only go down as the effectiveness of the shots wane).

And, as just mentioned, your risk of dying from COVID-19, provided you’re not ill and living in a nursing home, is around 0.25%.

So, again, if your risk of dying from COVID-19 is less than 1%, and your absolute risk reduction from the COVID shot is right around 1%,

that tells us the mathematical possibility of these COVID “vaccines” having a favorable impact on public health is very close to zero.

Hence, stating that COVID shots may be unnecessary for most people is not a lie.

It’s a commonsense conclusion that can be verified by anyone, in a number of different ways, using a number of different data sources.

Unfortunately, CNN is no longer in the business of relaying verifiable data or facts.

... I am donating all proceeds from this book to NVIC to help us protect our rights.

NVIC works across all of the US, the are the oldest and most powerful voice we have in defending medical choice.

Please help raise awareness by purchasing The Truth About COVID-19 while you can, and increase the visibility on Amazon so others will become aware of this important book before the censors have it banned.

Thank you if you already have a copy, it has truly made a difference!

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