Someone is very, very wrong here. Who is it?
The USA vs everybody else in the world. The answer is critical.
Over the past few weeks, I have pointed out decreasing vaccine efficacy (VE) not only against cases, but decreasing VE against hospitalization and death. Almost nobody can honestly contest that vaccines have failed to stop infections - but the shot supporters are correct: if the jab prevents hospitalizations and deaths, who really cares about the sniffles?
Therefore, a quick review of VE against death and serious illness and then what our own CDC has to say:
Ireland - waning VE against death (and hospitalization).
In fact, 80% of recent Irish deaths from c19 were in the vaccinated.
73% of the UK hospitalizations from COVID are in the vaccinated (and that number is growing).
Swedish data agrees with the drop in VE
Paper out of Sweden with a huge (1.7M people) database shows VE is dropping, not just for infections, but for hospitalizations and deaths in a 4-8 month time period:
Even the USA (just not the CDC!)
Using a huge 5.6M Medicare patient database had shown this same drop in VE in cases and illness/deaths in ages 65+ within 4-6 months of the second shot (before the results were scrubbed from the internet; but you can see most of their slides here)
But….
This is the current CDC data on vaccine efficacy against hospitalization and death (link to CDC)
They show virtually no drop in VE against hospitalization over 7 months. Holding steady at about 82% effective.
Just for fun, here is that illness VE data from Sweden again:
That is a very, very big difference.
It is the difference between the vaccine working perfectly and it barely working at all.
We need to know which is correct.
Two reasons to doubt the CDC’s version:
1 - The CDC data saying VE is not dropping stands at odds with data from Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, Quatar, and Sweden (among many, many others). But it also contradicts other data from the USA itself! (the now-missing Medicare DOJ JAIC Humetrix study).
2- Just look at the (lack of) differences between November 2020 and November 2021.