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posted ago by colers ago by colers +38 / -2

So, many of you have probably seen the post claiming that there is a miscarriage rate of 82% of women vaccinated during their first trimester. This is false, the article is bullshit, and the "oncologist" it talks about is either severely dyslectic, a fraud, or a figment of the authors imagination. The article in question is this (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/huge-red-flag-medical-researchers-bury-data-showing-82-miscarriage-rate-in-vaccinated-women). It relates to this article (https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2104983?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed). I recommend you read it, it isn't nearly as much a literary abortion as most papers are and doesn't require a medical degree to read, just a decent comprehension of statistics and to read the study from top to bottom, instead of a single paragraph like the article obviously did.

The central conclusion of the article is a gross mishandling of statistics; actually I would go much further than that and say that it is an outright perversion of fact.

The claim is: "e researchers had stated there were only 104 miscarriages among 827 pregnant women who had received a COVID vaccine, but reported only in a footnote that 700 of the pregnant women had received the shot after 28 weeks. Losing a baby after 20 weeks is not considered suffering a miscarriage but a still birth. Assuming that the remaining 127 women were before 20 weeks pregnant, that leaves an 82% miscarriage rate (104 out of 127),"

3987; That is the number that had received vaccine. That is the sample. You can verify this for yourself in table 3; keep in mind, this isn't actually a study to test the effects of the vaccine on unborn children, but to evaluate the complications of using it with pregnant women full stop, on both the woman and the child. It is not 827. That is the number of women who, after receiving the vaccine during the period February 28 to March 30, saw their pregnancy end before the survey was taken at March 30th. So, to reiterate, out of the original sample of 3987, 827 gave birth during the scope of the study, who were then used for a subanalysis regarding the effects on the infants.

We also don't have to actually assume shit, the study spells it out; 96 of the miscarriages happened in the first semester and 8 in the first half of the second semester. as a casual reading of the very same statistical footnotes this paragraph draws from would inform you.

This puts the total number of miscarriages vs vaccinations on women in the first trimester of pregnancy not at 104 vs 127, as the article asininely asserts, but at 96 vs 1224 (First trimester + perinatal cases of the test sample).