16 hours ago, Mark78L said:

how can any vaccine or drug be claimed to be effective, with any shred of honesty

https://www.vox.com/22894978/covid-19-vaccine-lives-saved-deaths-avoided-omicron-chart

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From the start of the US vaccination campaign through the end of November 2021, Covid-19 vaccines prevented about 1.1 million deaths and 10.3 million hospitalizations in the United States, according to estimates by the health care foundation The Commonwealth Fund

19 hours ago, beecee said:

Fact check: It is standard practice for vaccine safety monitoring to continue after approval

Social media users have asked why clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines are set to continue for several years if the jab is safe.

 

Yes indeed but surely it is pretty damn obvious that the only way we can establish/measure how long the protection from a vaccine or course of vaccines will remain effective is to keep monitoring until the vaccination becomes ineffective.

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8
 

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The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts

Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure.