![]() ![]() Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, also said the question of the paper isn’t about COVID-19, but whether the vaccines had a beneficial effect on other causes of mortality. Certain vaccines have effects that extend beyond the target infection and decrease mortality from other causes (e.g. "The study is aimed to determine if COVID vaccines have non-specific mortality impacts that extend beyond the incontrovertible mortality benefit they confer with COVID-19. "The study isn’t about the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against COVID," said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Security. While scientists like Benn contend that it’s important to study overall mortality effects of vaccines, people received these shots to protect themselves against COVID-19, which these vaccines continue to do. She wrote that headlines that say COVID-19 vaccines reduce mortality are too simplified.īut the same argument can be said for the YouTube video’s title - that mRNA vaccines offer "no mortality benefit." It’s misleading because it doesn’t specify that the findings are about non-COVID-19 related deaths, that the study is a preprint, or that more research is needed. Hence, we (health authorities, medical doctors, politicians, media as well as citizens) need to distinguish between ‘mRNA COVID-19 vaccines’ and ‘adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines’, and we need to specify if we talk about COVID-19-specific mortality or all-cause mortality." ![]() "The analysis of the randomized clinical trials suggests that COVID-19 vaccines are not a homogeneous group. "We need to be clear about which vaccine, and what outcomes, we are talking about," Benn wrote. She argued that scientists cannot presume to know the full effect of a vaccine "just by knowing its effect against the target infection" and said scientists need to study its effect on overall health. Christine Stabell Benn, a professor of global health at the University of Southern Denmark, made a post about the findings on her LinkedIn page. For the adenovirus-vaccinated group, two of the 16 deaths were from COVID-19. The study found that of the 31 deaths that occured in mRNA-vaccinated individuals, only two were from COVID-19. The authors concluded that the two types of vaccines differed significantly "with respect to overall mortality." They also said that adenovirus vaccines were associated with protection against non-accident, non-COVID-19 deaths.īut when looking at COVID-19 mortality rates specifically, the picture changes. Of the 46, 16 had received the vaccine, while 30 received a placebo. Thirty-one received the vaccine, while 30 received a placebo, thus showing that the vaccine essentially had no impact on "overall" mortality, according to the study.įor the adenovirus-vector vaccines, the study recorded 46 deaths out of 122,164 participants. The research analyzed randomized controlled trials to see how much the COVID-19 vaccines reduced deaths from all causes, and it sought to compare how the results differed between the adenovirus-vector vaccines and mRNA-based vaccines.įor the mRNA vaccines, the study found that 61 people out of 74,193 participants died. The study was conducted by researchers affiliated with various institutions, including the University of Southern Denmark, the Statens Serums Institut and the Bandim Health Project. A "preprint" is a research paper before it is peer-reviewed or accepted for publication by a scholarly or scientific journal. The study, titled "Randomised Clinical Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines: Do Adenovirus-Vector Vaccines Have Beneficial Non-Specific Effects?" was posted April 5 in the Lancet journal’s preprint server. ![]() PolitiFact reached out to Peak Prosperity for comment but did not hear back. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. The video features Chris Martenson, a former pharmaceutical financial analyst and founder of Peak Prosperity, a website that appears to be devoted to sharing concepts from a book he authored. The video adds that, by contrast, the adenovirus vector vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca do show a "very positive mortality benefit from COVID and, intriguingly, even from non-COVID deaths." "mRNA Vaccines Show No Mortality Benefit - Danish Study" is the title of a YouTube video that says the April 5 study found that the mRNA shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna do not stop infections or transmission and don’t reduce deaths, thus showing "no discernible mortality benefit." A Danish study that evaluated how the COVID-19 vaccines impact mortality is being used online as evidence that the messenger RNA-based vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna offer "no mortality benefit" at all. ![]()
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