VERY URGENT: CORRECTION/RETRACTION OF JUST RELEASED ARTICLE

A reader points out I misread a crucial line in the study: NO patients were unvaccinated, and thus I have to retract the piece. I apologize

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.