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Re:FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be ... by azinman2 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:59PM (#29008007)
That is at odds with previous studies, assumes you’re looking at a very short time horizon for getting Covid and negating beyond that entirely, and ignores that myocarditis is treatable as a side effect.

Given there’s a pandemic going on that’s resulted in massive casualties, assuming this is only being done for pharma profits doesn’t pass Occam’s razor.

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Re:FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be ... by collias on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:14PM (#29008110)
How does it not pass Occam's razor? A large pharma corp, known for sacrificing morals in the name of profit in the past[1], wouldn't do it again?

The pandemic has indeed caused casualties, but casualties amongst the population in question here (children and teens) is very low. Pfizer's own 6 month efficacy study shows total deaths amongst vaccinated and unvaccinated are statistically insignificant, with unvaxxed dying more of covid, and vaxxed dying slightly more of myocarditis and other heart-related issues[2].

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

[2]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...

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Re:FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be ... by barbazoo on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:50PM (#29008371)
> vaxxed dying slightly more of myocarditis and other heart-related issues[2]

Your link actually doesn't say anything about people dying due to Myocarditis following vaccination. Do you have any other source for that?

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Re:FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be ... by collias on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:15PM (#29008863)
Sure, it’s in Table S4 of the supplementary material.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/07/28/202...

Here’s a TLDR of cardiac-related deaths in the study:

Arteriosclerosis: 2 vax, 0 unvax

Cardiac arrest: 4 vax, 1 unvax

Cardiac failure: 1 vax, 0 unvax

Hemorrhagic stroke: 0 vax, 1 unvax

As you said, no myocarditis (my bad), but that’s a well-known side effect for younger people, which this study does not target.

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