Why does the vaccine effect need to be evaluated on an individual basis like that? You can use other people of a similar demographic to test the conditions and generalize the results. That's how nearly every medication study in history is done.
The control group would be the group of unvaccinated individuals who get COVID. The experimental group would be the group of vaccinated individuals who get COVID.
If fifty experimental and fifty control subjects all get COVID around the same time (from the same variant), then you'd compare the illness severity between the two groups. If the control group (unvaccinated) is getting sicker, requiring hospitalization more often, and has a higher incidence of death than the experimental group, then it would be fair to conclude that the vaccine lessens infection symptom severity.
You don't need to prove within a single individual both experimental conditions when that individual's health profile (reaction to both COVID and the vaccine) is considered generalizable enough to the entire population, and when you have a large enough population size, that becomes apparent pretty quickly based on whether you have a stable average profile per group or not.
There are plenty of studies that compare the rate and severity of hospitalization-level COVID infections in vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals, but since they are formal studies by scientific and medical organizations, they tend to be dismissed here as being compromised and untrustworthy.
Even so, these types of studies absolutely have been done and are available for your review.
Unless your opinion of the trustworthiness of the “mainstream” data is incorrect, in which case it’s the complete opposite. Until the Storm occurs, I suppose that appears to remain an open question.
Why does the vaccine effect need to be evaluated on an individual basis like that? You can use other people of a similar demographic to test the conditions and generalize the results. That's how nearly every medication study in history is done.
The control group would be the group of unvaccinated individuals who get COVID. The experimental group would be the group of vaccinated individuals who get COVID.
If fifty experimental and fifty control subjects all get COVID around the same time (from the same variant), then you'd compare the illness severity between the two groups. If the control group (unvaccinated) is getting sicker, requiring hospitalization more often, and has a higher incidence of death than the experimental group, then it would be fair to conclude that the vaccine lessens infection symptom severity.
You don't need to prove within a single individual both experimental conditions when that individual's health profile (reaction to both COVID and the vaccine) is considered generalizable enough to the entire population, and when you have a large enough population size, that becomes apparent pretty quickly based on whether you have a stable average profile per group or not.
But no one has done that and yet the comment persists. a lie
There are plenty of studies that compare the rate and severity of hospitalization-level COVID infections in vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals, but since they are formal studies by scientific and medical organizations, they tend to be dismissed here as being compromised and untrustworthy.
Even so, these types of studies absolutely have been done and are available for your review.
Thanks!
Unless your opinion of the trustworthiness of the “mainstream” data is incorrect, in which case it’s the complete opposite. Until the Storm occurs, I suppose that appears to remain an open question.