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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let's look at what the authors of the paper actually say, not what some antivax content creator at The Epoch Times has to say.

For two doses of COVID-19 vaccination, the odds ratio of Long COVID for acute COVID-19 severity was 7.5 (95% CI: 3.1,18.4), and for zero to one dose of COVID-19 vaccination, the odds ratio was 7.4 (95% CI: 3.5,15.8). This analysis rules out the possibility of interaction between COVID-19 vaccination and acute COVID-19 severity.

Interesting. The odds ratios were almost identical. And, looking at the entire 95% confidence interval, it is huge.

A 95% confidence interval means that the actual incidence number being estimated falls within the given range 95% of the time. This means that 5% of the time, it is not within that range. When the range is so large, the numbers are less robust.

Overall, the study is not a very strong one. It was based on telephone interviews of people who had previously been tested positive for Covid. There is a huge problem with reliability of any study based on subjective answers to questions. A much better methodology would have been for the Covid survivors to get an actual diagnosis from a medical professional. That would be more expensive, true, but would also be far more objective. Perhaps they don't have the funds in India to do a more robust study.

I do find it interesting that the study was published a year ago and only now did the professional antivaxxers on The Epoch Times staff manage to find it and twist it to give an antivax spin to it. Does this mean that the professional antivaxxers are running out of scientific material to misrepresent? Does this mean that the efforts of scientists to educate people are interfering with antivax fearmongering campaigns? One can only hope.

Characteristics and predictors of Long COVID among diagnosed cases of COVID-19.

8 posted on 12/30/2023 3:10:57 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom; E. Pluribus Unum

So says the BigPharmaBot.

Like anyone, here, believes the wall of words/CDC drivel you *source*.

You and Daisy need to find new gigs.


9 posted on 12/30/2023 3:12:53 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: exDemMom

everyone that I know that exhibits signs of mental illness says stuff just like you, maybe they should examine the shots & mental illness correlation. But exDem says it all, ur not all the way Ex


12 posted on 12/30/2023 3:41:35 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: exDemMom

Your Pfizer and Moderna 4 shot free knee pads have got to wearing out. Every covid topic post has you on your knees worshiping the experimental genetic experiment pharma companies. It’s quite the impressive thing to witness. Pathetic but impressive. Your incessant desire to try to prove your superiority in understanding/ knowledge has shown everyone what is needed. Btw: I don’t believe your an ExDem. I think you’re a DemMom because you think we all are too stupid to see the truth. On another thread, you stated the VidVax were all fully approved. That’s an outright lie. The FDA gave a preliminary approval to a specific named and process yet the manufacturer has never released that product or gone back to the FDA for its final approval. So all (ALL!) VidVax have been administered/mandated are under EUA ONLY! So you lie with partial truths. There is someone in the Bible that uses that same method. You are not an ExDem and my guess is no one wants you as a Mom. That just leaves DEM.


16 posted on 12/30/2023 5:27:40 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored. )
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To: exDemMom

“Long Covid” is a bullshit term anyway. So the poll is useless.


18 posted on 12/30/2023 7:19:03 PM PST by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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