I'll admit I've kinda tuned out on the vaccine/mask safety issue. In my personal circle the vaccinated/unvaccinated aren't seeing different results--at least not at an obviously different level.

There are a lot of difficulties in performing these analyses:

1. COVID test results aren't reliable or comparable.

2. Frequent conflation of "died with" vs. "died from".

3. Vast differences in record keeping across regions.

4. Definition of "vaccinated" is not consistent, and frequently < 14 days vaccinated is "unvaccinated".

5. Hospital treatment procedures can cause tremendously different results. Hospitals can treat vaccinated differently than unvaccinated. What % of the "deaths" were actually hospital murders?

6. Many studies focus on something like "protection from COVID" but will exclude other health issues.

7. Speed of virus spread--along with regional differences in all of the above factors--makes regional comparisons difficult to impossible. Especially w/NZ & Australia. (You see NZ and Sweden often being compared right now, which IMO is extremely tricky.) The variant that lands at a place 6 months later probably isn't quite what it was when it first emerged.

So yeah, there are a lot of studies, but they tend to be constructed in ways that aren't useful for extracting meaning.

I'd be curious to look at the record level data if anyone knows a working link.