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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr. Angela Rasmussen

      This is a very old technique by antivaxxers. During measles outbreaks pre-pandemic, antivaxxers would point to the number of fully vaccinated children getting the measles as "evidence" the MMR doesn't work, ignoring the denominators (how many unvaxxed vs. vaxxed).https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1415314151476453379 …

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      Dr. Angela RasmussenVerified account @angie_rasmussen
      Lots of anecdotal "fully vaxxed people in the ICU" tweets, so I'll share this excellent piece by Dr. @KatherineJWu. As more people get vaccinated, we will see more breakthrough, including a small % of serious cases. This doesn't mean vaccines don't work. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/coronavirus-breakthrough-infections/619416/ …
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

      It would always turn out that the risk of getting measles was many times higher in the unvaxxed. Raw numbers of infections are misleading if you don't know the denominator. You have to look at the fraction of vaccinated getting infected and compare it to the fraction unvaccinated

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

      Given how long antivaxxers have used this technique, it is utterly unsurprising that they have started using it to try to claim that #CovidVaccine doesn't work. Again, before there even was a vaccine, I (and others) were predicting that antivaxxers would do exactly this.

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

          Calculating relative risks is even better. I'd have to look up the paper, but I seem to recall that during an outbreak the risk of getting measles among unvaccinated children was something like 23-fold higher than among vaccinated children.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

          Part of the reason pointing to "breakthrough infections" (or whatever you want to call them) is scary to people is that there is a mistaken belief that vaccines are 100% effective. No vaccine is 100% effective. MMR, for instance is around 95% effective.

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jul 14

          #CovidVaccine is very effective, the mRNA varieties perhaps as effective as MMR vaccines against measles, but they are not 100% effective. Again, no vaccine is. To imply that they don't work because they are not 100% effective is the Nirvana fallacy.

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