The last two weeks have brought three new studies finding negative efficacy for two vaccine doses, meaning the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. These are study findings, not raw data, so have been adjusted for various biases and confounders, making it harder to dismiss them as anomalous or skewed.
The first is a pre-print study from Denmark, published on December 23rd, which looked at nearly all PCR-positive SARS-CoV-2 infections in Denmark from November 20th to December 12th and investigated them to see if they were likely to be the Omicron variant. By comparing the vaccination status of those infected, the researchers found a vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron variant of minus-76.5% for Pfizer and minus-39.3% for Moderna three months after double vaccination (see chart above), meaning the double-vaccinated were considerably more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. They found the vaccine effectiveness against Omicron was significantly lower than against Delta, with Pfizer vaccine effectiveness at 53.8% and Moderna at 65% against Delta after three months. They reported that a third dose of Pfizer got vaccine effectiveness against Omicron back up to 54.6%, at least for a month. The full results are in the table below.
The latest vaccine effectiveness study from the UKHSA confirms these results. Against Omicron, the UKHSA reports zero or negative vaccine effectiveness from a double-dose of all three vaccines (AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna) after five months. The third dose takes it up again, but only into the 40-60% range, and dropping fast.
A new study in Eurosurveillance from Norway also backs up the observation of negative vaccine effectiveness against Omicron, with a higher proportion of those who tested positive in the particular outbreak in the study being double-vaccinated than those who did not test positive (98% versus 93%).
Some studies had already found negative vaccine effectiveness against Delta, in line with the unadjusted figures from the UKHSA, though many people had dismissed these results as anomalous or biased. With Omicron, the reports of negative efficacy are becoming impossible to ignore, with even the UKHSA publishing graphs showing it after three months on two doses. At some point, health authorities are going to need to grapple with what the data is showing on this and stop pretending it isn’t there.
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Meanwhile the Just Stop Oil loons think they are making a difference and “saving the planet” by sitting in the middle of the road disrupting people’s lives.
They don’t understand anything except the crumbs of distorted information they are fed by their media devices.
Yep!. in the words of Tom Slater (Spiked) they are not revolutionaries, they are bigoted brats with an over powering sense of self worth. A product of an academic and upper class culture that promotes their intolerances and prejudices.
I started reading Sp!ked as far back as 2013 and read it everyday. But since 2021 I have only read a handful of articles, and some of those articles were published on here! They shot themselves in the foot maligning us “anti-vaxxers”.
Not forgetting Brendan O’Neill pushing mandatory injections for Care Home workers which resulted in me cancelling my subscription.
And he still hasn’t apologised.
Same here. I cancelled my monthly donation because of their intolerance of those who decided not to participate in a mass medical experiment.
As did I.
JSO makes it easier to introduce legislation restricting protests and promote UN 2030 goals.
They disrupt the public rather than focussing their efforts on government buildings and areas. By fault or design, they might as well be a government agency.
Yes they are the governments useful idiots. No wonder they don’t come down hard on them since they are doing the governments dirty work for them.
The last two paragraphs sum it up. National bankruptcy, financially and intellectually
We will be the next Third World. Hope they sent us some Foreign Aid!
Excellent peice of common sense Mr Craig 👏
Presumably 😀 those building all these new airports have factored in the loss in numbers of British tourists – there just won’t be any.
They will be celebrating in Tenerife. Well at least those who are not in the tourism sector, and that sector is large over there.
I do wish the Daily Sceptic would stop spreading such blatant lies / misinformation.
The area of the planet known as UAE has an average annual temperature of around 27 degrees Celsius, the UK 11.
This difference of 16 degrees is over 10 times greater than the 1.5 degrees C increase we have been assured by the Net Zero lobby would represent a catastrophic change from pre-industrial times.
So no human being could possibly exist in such an uninhabitable region, never mind be involved in massive airport construction projects…
Britain bemoans its lack of growth, the only way to provide a better standard of living for the least well off and to provide for the elderly and infirm, all the while regulating and stifling the private companies that would provide that growth.
And those who bemoan it the most are the ones who have, historically, done the most damage…’Blair’s Britain’……I give you our next mincing government……!
Dubai airport and many others have clearly demonstrated how infrastructure, airports drive growth.
Probably Britain does not need any new airports, only better infrastructure linking airports that already exist to major conurbations; better infrastructure like, for example, HS2 which, at its fullest extent would link, speedily, Leeds (kind of) and Manchester airports to London, obviating the need for more runways at Heathrow etc.
Where is there to be found a politician, a government, in this benighted land with some flocking vision…..?
Bunter had ‘Bunter Island’ as London Mayor, got to Westminster and became a Buntering Blancmange….Cherchez la femme!
Oh for heaven’s sake….!
Hmm … how can they now build airports in Dubai when they all became victims of climate change less than a fortnight ago, as Chris Packham claimed on BBC. Surely, Chris would never lie about something like this! Or would he … ?
But it is the West, and in particular Britain who started off the Industrial Revolution that has to retreat from prosperity the hardest and fastest. Because at UN level it is deemed we are the ones who benefited most and for the longest period of time from the use of fossil fuels which gives us the standard of living we now have. So with the full compliance of our United Nations lackey politicians we are to rid ourselves of fossil fuels faster than everyone else and they have even forced us in law to do so with the Net Zero Amendment in 2019 where no debate and no vote took place and the policy of impoverishing ourselves was simply waved through. —–This has NOTHING to do with climate and our own political class should be arrested for treason.
We dont need any industries or farms. Pure left wing madness.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-has-a-cunning-plan-for-reducing-migration-363826/
Rees-Mogg is just another useful idiot. There is no food security plan in this country and hasn’t been since WWII. Creating food shortages is very much part of the reset agenda and if he is not aware of this he is another useless, blithering pillock.
Rees-Mogg doesn’t. As citizen of nowhere, he’s sufficiently affluent that he can live anywhere and have stuff delivered from anywhere else.
Not just laughing …. rubbing their hands in glee at our “leaders” stupidity.
If only we had a political party that exposed the risks and fallacies of Net Zero, and promised to repeal all the legislation that’s driving us towards bankruptcy. Sadly we are likely to get a Labour government that will make things much worse; at least the Conservatives were beginning to see the light. Oh, and Labour won’t fix the immigration issue either. There may be trouble ahead…
We do have such a party: Reform UK
Net zero is the greatest act of financial SELF-HARM ever imposed on the UK | Richard Tice – YouTube
Thanks to David Craig for gathering all that fascinating information about new airports being built all over the world in defiance of Net Zero, even in the Maldives, which we were all told would soon sink like Atlantis beneath the waves.