https://nationalpost.com/health/omicron-unvaccinated-double-vaccinated-covid-positive
89 in 100,000 people who had received two doses of vaccine tested positive for the coronavirus, compared to 68 in 100,000 of those who have so far avoided vaccination.
"avoided vaccination" kek. Very funny way of saying those who chose not to take part in an experiment.
As one infectious-disease specialist said, the trend is “curious.”
Yep, "curious" is a bonafide scientific term that means "do not do further research if it might conflict with your belief system"
But experts say the trend probably stems from statistical “biases” — the nature of the people who have been getting tested and who most frequently were exposed to the virus — and definitely not some strange quirk of immunization.
Oh yeah, we know pal. Its not a "quirk" for sure.
that people who are vaccinated are more likely to seek a PCR test for employment and other reasons
Buddy, even if vaccinated are more likely to seek a test, we are still talking about numbers per 100k. Comprende?
and more apt to be exposed to COVID
Ummm .. isnt that why vaccination is supposed to help? Or does vaccination only work if you dont expose yourself to COVID?
The “confusing” trend can be logically explained but “it behooves us not to hide from these data or to minimize them, but instead to wrestle with them,”
"logically" - if this is logic, I hate to see their illogical side
"wrestle" - Oh, this guy is speaking the quiet part out loud haha
people who have received a third, booster dose have a lower rate than the unvaccinated of testing positive.
Ah I see, so the kind of people who take booster are different from the kind of people who get vaccinated. Let me guess - these are probably those who hide in their basement and no get exposed to cavoid, right?
The bias in testing could definitely skew the results. But it's funny how it only seems to skew them one way. Higher rate in unvaxxed? vax is working! Higher rate in vaxxed? must be something wrong with the data!
The data is way worse than what was quoted there anyway - vaxed people multiple times more likely to be infected with omicron:
Germany: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/german-omicron-data
(see this chart:) https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4eabeae-bd77-4983-bc39-4f67ba592dea_1319x786.png
it's everywhere where they have data that isn't shitty and corrupted like US data:
UK: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/vaccines-and-boosters-associated
Denmark: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-danish-vaccine-efficacy-data
Scotland: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/new-data-on-vaccine-efficacy-from
To be fair, I think I might have got omicron but never tested myself. It was barely noticeable and only lasted a day. And even then the tests don't work a lot of the time anyway.
On the other hand, most vaxtards test themselves anally on a daily basis, so the argument that there might be a bias is plausible.
The bias is plausible as the total number, but not as number per 100K.
No, it's still a problem per 100K. The rates calculate the fraction of cases discovered in each population, divided by the number of people in the population (population being vaxxed people vs not vaxed).
The claim is that vaxed people are more likely to get tested than unvaxed - that there is a bias in testing rate correlated to vax status.
If that is true, it would effectively reduce the reported cases in the unvaxed population vs the reported cases in the vaxed population, and therefore would bias the rate.
I have no idea whether the claim is true - and neither do they. I know that I didn't test myself for something that was a barely noticeable illness, even though it did occur to me it might be covid. Whereas covid crazies are reputed to test themselves repeatedly just hoping to get a positive.
A lot of testing is driven by blanket testing requirements, which could help reduce bias. Except that up until recently it was biased the OTHER way. For example, unvaxed school kids had to test weekly but vaxed didn't have to test at all. But now they're back to everyone testing weekly.
Bottom line, they have a point that the test rate biases the data. But I've never seen any credible analysis that quantifiably explains away the rate differential based on testing rates. It's always just a handwaving "muh testing bias" excuse.
You are correct. Scientifically this data is garbage.