Years have passed, and people are still calling them variations of this. Oddly enough, they seem to overlook that the vaccines most associated with this are no longer on the market. This is the same crowd that doesn’t understand the concept of relative risk, which is part of the meaning of the phrase “safe and effective.”
There is one very large study of over 1.1 million veterans that puts this in context. Here, VTE means venous thromboembolism, ie, a blood clot. Here are the rates of VTE at baseline, among vaccinated and unvaccinated vaccine and not having COVID:
- 1.3741 per 1,000 in the unvaccinated
- 1.3755 per 1,000 in the vaccinated
This amounts to 1.4 excess cases of VTE per 1,000,000 among those vaccinated.
For COVID, “VTE is a prominent sequela of infection, occurring in about 8% of hospitalized patients and 22.7% of patients in the ICU.” During the study period, “This suggests at least 3203 COVID-19-related VTE cases would have occurred in that period. If all 257,125 new cases were vaccinated instead, 0.36 excess VTE cases could be expected, based on our observed rate of 1.4 excess cases per 1,000,000 vaccinated, a 99.9% lower rate.“
That is what is meant by “safe and effective.” It simply means that the vaccine risk is considerably lower than the risk of the disease, and this is just for ONE adverse outcome of a COVID infection.
