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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by thr0w72594 on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:39AM (#29119920)
Subramanian Kumar 2021 [1] found that there is no correlation between vaccination rates and new case rates on a country-wide level, or a county-wide level in the United States.

This tracks with Dr. Vanden Bossche's assessment [2] from March of this year that mass vaccination with prophylactic vaccines will actually prolong and worsen the pandemic due to shedding of infectious variants.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/ [2] https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by rileyphone on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:55AM (#29120153)
several comments on the quality of its science here - https://pubpeer.com/publications/693A0D3B374ACED0103ADDEA0D9...
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by jeffbee on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#29120213)
Imagine having this data and concluding there is no relationship between vaccination and new case rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by decebalus1 on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:26PM (#29121488)
Stop spreading misinformation. The 'study' is in itself a case study about shitty studies. Also check who Akhil Kumar is and what are his credentials.
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by selimthegrim on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:43AM (#29119976)
Vanden Bossche seems alone in this regard? Surely NPIs would ameliorate that?
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by AndrewBissell on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:00AM (#29120227)
Aside from islands closing their borders and implementing extremely strict testing and quarantine regimes (and even these don't hold up forever), the evidence for the effectiveness of NPIs is a lot thinner than you might intuitively expect.
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