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(Original, incorrect headline): A new study shows VACCINATED people with blood cancers were four times more likely to die after Covid infections than the unjabbed

CORRECTION TO ARTICLE (published as separate note):

UGH. Worst mistake in two years.

My previous article claimed “a new study shows VACCINATED people with blood cancers were four times more likely to die after Covid infections than the unjabbed.”

But I am wrong.

A reader notes that the appendix shows “infection before vaccination” line refers to a “previous positive SARS-CoV-2 test… no later than 14 days after the second mRNA vaccine or first adenoviral vaccine.”

In other words, people who had already been infected and then vaccinated - who had so-called “hybrid” immunity - were less likely to die than those who had vaccine-only immunity.

But no one in the study was unvaccinated. This my conclusion - and the my headline - were simply incorrect. (Too bad, because the broader point is correct: we have increasing evidence, including the Ohio State study mentioned in the second paragraph, that vaccines do little to prevent deaths once they stop preventing infection.)

I will make a note on the story as well, but this was too important not to flag separately.

I apologize for the error.

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(Article as originally published here, for completeness’s sake.)

It is the last defense of the mRNA jabs, repeated endlessly by reporters and public health bureaucrats: Covid shots save lives. Even if they don’t stop infection or transmission, they keep people from being hospitalized or dying of Covid.

Lately that defense has sprung leaks. Three weeks ago, researchers at Ohio State reported at their hospital, the “mortality rate remained significantly higher” among vaccinated patients even compared to unjabbed patients with similar comorbidities like heart disease.

But that report covered only one hospital and 152 patients. Now data buried in a far larger study - published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association by mainstream, pro-Covid-jab researchers - raises even more serious questions.

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The paper looked at the outcomes of 6,122 Covid cases in adults who had blood cancers like leukemia and were treated by the Veterans Health Administration in 2021 and 2022.

Covid vaccination rates among these patients were high, with 83 percent jabbed before April 30, 2021 (meaning they had received both doses by mid-April).

Still, their outcomes remained poor. Over 20 percent, or about 1,300, developed “severe” Covid, meaning they needed hospitalization and steroid or oxygen treatment. Within four weeks of infection, 214 had died - about 1 in 30, or 3.5 percent.

The researchers highlighted the fact that people who’d received a booster shot were 27 percent less likely to suffer severe Covid than those who had not. That gap persisted in death rates. 3 percent of people who received a booster died, compared to 4.2 percent of those who had received only the initial regimen.

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But the paper also included results from a relative handful of unvaccinated infected people, 263 in all. The researchers did not disclose their death rates in the paper, only the final page of the appendix, where they are listed as “infection before vaccinated.”

How many of those 263 unvaccinated people died?

Two.

Yes, unvaccinated people had a death rate within 28 days of Covid infection of 0.8 percent - less than one-fifth as high as people who received the initial two-dose mRNA series, and barely one-quarter as high as the boosted.

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(The most important chart you’ll see this month.)

SOURCE

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Unvaccinated people also developed severe Covid less frequently than the vaccinated. About 16 percent of unvaccinated people got severe Covid, compared to 25 percent of vaccinated and 19 percent of boosted people.

Notably, the researchers did not present an adjusted odds ratio for the unvaccinated for either deaths or severe Covid - they only compared vaccinated with boosted. (And, again, they didn’t put the raw death figures in the main paper at all).

Were the unvaccinated cancer patients somewhat healthier and younger than the vaccinated? It’s impossible to know, because the researchers don’t disclose specific information about them. But they couldn’t have been all that difference, because everyone the researchers included in the paper - vaccinated or not - had blood cancer.

So the paper allows a comparison of vaccinated and unvaccinated death rates in a group of very sick patients who are mostly comparable aside from their vaccine status.

And thus it gets around the biggest bias in vaccine epidemiology, the fact that people who are vaccinated are healthier than those who are not, creating what is known as “healthy vaccinee bias.”

In finding that - at least in these cancer patients - unvaccinated people died less often than the vaccinated, the paper shows how powerful healthy vaccinee bias may be.

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The paper’s appendix contains another intriguing fact.

Whether or not they developed severe Covid, vaccinated people were infected just under eight months on average after their first shot. For boosted people, the gap was just over a year. In other words, the booster provided five months of protection.

These figures are roughly comparable to the timing of mRNA Covid jab failure in everyone, old or young, with cancer or not.

The obvious inference: once the vaccines stop working against Covid infection, they also fail to prevent its downstream consequences, in cancer patients and everyone else. Like the book says, You get what you get and you don’t get upset.

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In the “happy vaccine valley” of spring and summer 2021, the mRNA jabs worked against Covid infection and Covid deaths also plunged. But despite what the vaccine fanatics have claimed ever since, those halcyon months do not and cannot prove the shots prevent severe disease independent of their ability to stop infection.

They prove the opposite - if you don’t get Covid, you cannot die from it.

But as these new papers show, if you do, you can.

Vaccinated or not.