>>The cross-sectional study looked at more than 620,000 entries in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from 2020 through 2022.
Could be reporting bias. IIRC, at one point Fauci asked hospitals to stop reporting adverse events from the covid shots so as not to scare people way from getting the clot shot. I imagine hospitals in Commie areas would have been more amenable to that kind of manipulation of data.
Slay News is a sh***y website, and they should be shunned. I honestly believe they’re a leftist front designed to snare gullible “conservatives” and make us look stupid.
First, their link to the study doesn’t work. Does anyone edit or proofread over there? Here’s the link:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816958
Second, Slay omits the study’s title:
“Reports of COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events in Predominantly Republican vs Democratic States” and “Question Is state political inclination associated with COVID-19 vaccine adverse event (AE) reporting?”
Why? Probably to get clicks.
In fact, the researchers conclude “ In finding that Republican-inclined states show higher COVID-19 AE reporting than Democrat-inclined states, this study suggests that Republicans are more likely to perceive or report those AEs and that Democrats are less likely to.”
In other words, JSM_Liberty is right: the researchers suggest Republicans are more likely to file an AE while Dems are less likely. That’s it.
Now, we can IMPLY all sorts of things from that statistical observation. Dems may choose politics over health with regard to VAERS. The Repubs are undaunted. And so on. Heck, put on the tin foil hat…after all, the difference between a conspiracy theory and fact is about 2 years.
But that should be reported as a theory or suggestion or tin foil…not a FACT.
relatedly…Third, at NO PLACE in this study are deaths revealed to be “surging.” Indeed, “ Adverse events were reported to the VAERS as severe if they threatened or caused death or led to emergency visits, hospitalizations, or disability.” If Slay had any reading comprehension skills, they’d see that deaths are lumped in with other things. Thus, even with a statistically significant odds ratio (there’s no way the geniuses at Slay could even BEGIN to explain that is basically a relative odds metric) it is IMPOSSIBLE to claim that the trend of deaths went up, or down, or stayed flat.
Slay makes Gateway Pundit look good, and GP sucks. I’ve seen less f-ed up reporting from NPR, and they’re the enemy. And we wind up looking like gullible rubes.