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Did PHAC confirm higher mortality in boosted Canadians?!

Did Public Health Agency of Canada just confirm that boosted people have higher mortality (death rates) compared to the unvaccinated?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : PHAC confirms higher mortality in boosted Canadians!

People are sharing a Rebel News article (archive) which claimed that Public Health Agency of Canada just confirmed that boosted Canadians have higher mortality (death rates) compared to the unvaccinated!

Here is an excerpt of that article. Please skip to the next section for the facts!

Public Health Agency confirms higher death rates among boosted Canadians compared to the unvaccinated

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Truth : PHAC did not confirm higher mortality in boosted Canadians!

Let’s take a look at what the PHAC actually said, and show you why this is really just misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines:

PHAC did not confirm higher mortality in boosted Canadians

Let me start by pointing out that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) did not confirm that boosted Canadians have a higher mortality (death rate) than unvaccinated Canadians.

If you read the official PHAC response to MP Cathay Wagantall’s questions, you will see that PHAC specifically pointed out that unvaccinated Canadians were 8x more likely to die than boosted Canadians.

Those unvaccinated were 8 times more likely to die than those with a completed primary vaccine series and 1 or more additional doses.

Data for that time period is not comparable

I should also point out that the time period in question – June 10 to August 28, 2022, is not directly comparable, because there was a change of definitions and vaccination statuses. That change also resulted in gaps of data from June 28 to July 4, and July 19 to July 24.

To make it easier to visualise, I summarised the data (which again, isn’t directly comparable) in this table:

Vaccination Status Crude weekly deaths (average)
June 13 –
July 27
July 4 –
July 18
July 25 –
August 29
Unvaccinated 23.3 13 28.7
Not yet protected 1
Partially vaccinated 8.3
Fully vaccinated 73.3 23.5 7
1 additional dose 144 63 109.3
2 additional doses 20 46.3

As you can see, PHAC transitioned through two different sets of definitions during that time period.

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50% of Canadians had 1 booster dose at that time

Much has been made of this PHAC reply – “Across all weeks in the time period of interest, the number of deaths were highest among those with a primary series and 1 additional dose.

However, PHAC immediately cautioned against jumping to conclusions, because the crude weekly death numbers do not account for the number of people in each vaccination category.

In fact, people who received 1 additional (booster) dose of the vaccine represented HALF (50%) of the population. So it would not be surprising to see this category show the highest crude death rate.

PHAC also pointed out that even though the “crude number of deaths” was highest in the group with 1 additional dose of the vaccine, the “rate of death” (mortality rate) was “low” compared to the unvaccinated group!

[A]lthough the crude number of deaths are highest among this group, the rate of deaths among those with a primary series and 1 additional dose are low in comparison to those who are unvaccinated.

Finally, PHAC pointed out that the “unvaccinated were 8 times more likely to die” than vaccinated Canadians who received a booster dose.

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Booster dose prioritised for people with severe disease

PHAC also pointed out that both testing and the vaccines were prioritised for people who were at risk of getting severe COVID-19 disease – the elderly, people with pre-existing medical conditions, immunocompromised patients, etc.

Not only are these people more likely to die, they are also more likely to suffer more severe consequences of any COVID-19 infection. So there is a risk of data bias, leading people to conclude that their vaccinations were leading to their deaths.

Imagine if data showed that the same group of vaccinated people with 1 booster dose had the highest rate of deaths from car accidents, or pregnancies, does that mean that the COVID-19 vaccines are causing car accidents, or getting them pregnant?

In fact, PHAC specifically pointed out that vaccinated people are less likely to get sick or die, compared to unvaccinated people!

[D]espite their higher case counts, vaccinated people are less likely to get very sick or die than those unvaccinated for COVID19.

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Unvaccinated more likely to die than vaccinated people

PHAC’s assertion that unvaccinated people are more likely to get sick or die is backed by actual data.

Public Health Ontario, for example, provided public data (PDF) which clearly show that unvaccinated people are far more likely to be hospitalised, or die, from COVID-19.

Unlike the crude mortality numbers shared in the reply to MP Cathay Wagantall, these two charts show the rate of hospitalisation (above) and death (below) per 100,000 person-days.

These two charts also clearly show that the COVID-19 vaccines are not only safe, they are effective at preventing death and hospitalisation from COVID-19 infections.

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Why Pfizer CEO ignored vaccine transmission questions!

A video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ignoring questions on COVID-19 vaccines preventing transmission has gone viral. Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Viral Video : Pfizer CEO Ignores Questions On Transmission!

A video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ignoring questions on COVID-19 vaccines preventing transmission has gone viral.

Here is a rough transcript of what was said. It’s really long, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts.

Ezra Levant : Mr. Bourla, can I ask you – when did you know the vaccines did not stop transmission? How long did you know that before saying it publicly?

Albert Bourla : Thank you very much.

Ezra Levant : To that question, I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn’t stop transmission, but why did you keep it secret?

Ezra Levant : You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%, but we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission. Why do you keep that secret?

Albert Bourla : Have a nice day.

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Why Pfizer CEO ignored vaccine transmission questions!

This is yet another example of misinformation created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the facts you need to know.

COVID-19 vaccines were never meant to stop transmission

The COVID-19 vaccines, whether from Pfizer or any other pharmaceutical company, were designed to prevent hospitalisation and death from COVID-19.

Prevention of transmission would have been a nice bonus, but it was never the primary goal of any COVID-19 vaccine. And how do we know that?

Simple – there were only three endpoints in the Phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccines:

  • protection against symptomatic infection
  • protection against severe disease
  • protection against death

All vaccines – whether Pfizer or otherwise – were never designed or required to prevent transmission of COVID-19.

That was precisely what all COVID-19 vaccines aimed for, and that was what all Phase 3 trial results show. Here is a table I created from the initial Phase 3 trials of the major vaccines in March 2021:

COVID-19 Vaccine Protection Against
Symptomatic
Infection
Severe
Disease
Death
Pfizer Comirnaty 95.0% 100% 100%
Gamaleya Sputnik V 91.6% 100% 100%
Moderna mRNA-1273 94.1% 100% 100%
AstraZeneca AZD1222 62% ~ 90% 100% 100%
Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV 79% ~ 86% 90% 100%
Sinovac Biotech 50.65% 83.7% 100%
J&J Janssen COVID-19 66.0% 85% 100%
CanSino Biologics 65.7% 90.98% 100%

Pfizer CEO did not claim COVID-19 vaccine prevents transmission

On April 1, 2021, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla posted about a small South African trial in which 800 people vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine did not get infected.

Although he could have been much clearer, he did not say that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine prevents transmission. He later clarified that it only shows that the vaccine produced a “robust neutralising antibody response” to a specific variant.

800 participants enrolled in South Africa with 0 cases of #COVID19 observed in the vaccinated group. Of the cases observed the majority were confirmed to be of the B.1.351 lineage, the prevalent strain in South Africa.

These data support previous results from immunogenicity studies demonstrating a robust neutralizing antibody response to the B.1.351 variant.

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It is quite impossible to prevent transmission of COVID-19

Anti-vaccination activists are harping on the prevention of transmission, because it’s a red herring – they know that it is quite impossible to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is primarily a respiratory virus that spreads by droplets and aerosols, but it is highly contagious, and can infect people through their eyes and mouths, and even through fomites (contaminated surfaces) – albeit, this is relatively rare.

The point is – vaccines are not force fields that repel the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They are basically training camps that teach our own immune system how to identify the virus, so they can make their own antibodies against it.

Even in a fully-vaccinated person, the antibodies only work after the virus enters the bloodstream. The antibodies cannot block or repel the virus, which is why the vaccine trials looked at preventing “symptomatic infections” and not preventing “infections”.

Similarly, the immune systems of vaccinated people are capable of preventing the virus from causing serious harm, but they can only partially block transmission by preventing the virus from replicating as much as it would normally be capable of.

The immune systems of vaccinated people, unfortunately, cannot do anything about virus particles that get inhaled into the lungs and then exhaled into the environment in respiratory droplets and aerosols.

I should point out that “natural immunity” from a prior COVID-19 infection cannot block or prevent transmission of COVID-19 either. So why should anyone insist that vaccines, whether Pfizer or otherwise, must prevent transmission of COVID-19?

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COVID-19 vaccines are effective

Regardless of what the two men who questioned Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla may claim, the truth is – COVID-19 vaccines have proven to be effective in preventing severe disease and death from COVID-19 infections.

That is how most of the world was able to reopen without COVID-infected patients swamping hospitals and ICUs, as we saw throughout 2020 and early 2021.

Yes, fully-vaccinated people are still getting infected by COVID-19, but they no longer need to be hospitalised, and most of them no longer die from a COVID-19 infection.

Again, COVID-19 vaccines were designed to prevent severe illness and death, not transmission or infection. They have done an excellent job in those aspects.

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy changes against variants

Like the influenza virus, the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates rapidly – every infected person is literally a virus factory that is capable of producing new variants.

New virus variants may differ enough that the antibodies created by our own immune system may not attach to them properly.

This “immune escape” problem exists for people who obtained “natural immunity” through a COVID-19 infection, as much as those who are fully-vaccinated.

Each new variant is like an army that has learned to adapt to the battlefield, which is why the vaccines’ efficacy appear to “drop” with each variant.

It does not mean the vaccines do not work as advertised. Those vaccines still maintain the same efficacy against the ancestral COVID-19 virus that they were all tested against. It’s just that the antibodies they trigger may be less capable of attaching properly to the newer variants.

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Protection from natural immunity is reduced against variants too

Antibodies created by our immune system from a prior COVID-19 infection – the “natural immunity” promoted by anti-vaccination activists, are also less effective against new variants.

That’s why people with natural immunity can and still do get infected again and again with new variants of COVID-19.

That is why it is important to develop new versions of the vaccines to deal with new COVID-19 variants that develop over time.

Sure, you can improve your immunity by repeatedly getting infected by new variants of COVID-19, but why not give your immune system a head start by getting the improved bivalent vaccines that are designed to better handle the Omicron variants?

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He continues to devote countless hours every day writing about tech, medicine and science, in his pursuit of facts in a post-truth world.

 

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