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What’s your specific beef with Moderna’s three-phase clinical trials?

The New England Journal of Medicine in February 2021 published Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy. Further studies confirmed it. If you know better than the reviewers at a leading medical journal, it would be interesting to know why you’re so qualified.


>Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy

Yet strangely every person I know vaccinated or not still got COVID. YouTube banned people for even simple observation like this.


Every person you know.

Anecdotes are worthless in a scientific setting, or literally any setting with the slightest amount of rigor. More often than not, we do not have anywhere near a representative sample in the people we know or hang around.


I got the Moderna vaccine in May 2021 and a booster in December that year.

The first time I got Covid was a year later, December 2022. Exactly as predicted by the vaccinations.

I don’t go around pretending that this anecdote is worth anything. That’s why companies like Moderna do clinical trials with 30,000 people.

Somehow lots of people whose experiences are slightly outside the median are convinced that everything is a lie. “Statistics are hard, let’s go shopping?”




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