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Am I reading the heading incorrectly or have you switched the unvaccinated with the vaccinated?

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Correct and thank you.

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Nov 28, 2021Liked by James Lyons-Weiler

FYI, your email version got the title of this essay changed to have the opposite meaning. Meanwhile, thanks for all your work!

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Ty

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Is your title accurate? It states unvaccinated are more vulnerable to Covid

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Looks like he fixed the heading here. Too late to fix in the emailed version, unfortunately. Perhaps send a correction email?

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"People with these risk factors should do all they can do to reverse their conditions."

Thank you for pointing this out! Almost nobody else does so.

One of the biggest comorbidities for severe COVID-19 is metabolic dysfunction, of which I view overweight, metabolic syndrome, obesity, heart disease, and assorted other chronic conditions as being on the same resulting spectrum.

All these conditions can be largely turned around by lifestyle changes, especially diet. Unfortunately the way we've been told to eat for the last 40 years is exactly wrong. When Covid first showed up I was really hoping that government and scientific authorities would see it as an opportunity to encourage preventive lifestyles.

Unfortunately, of course the opposite happened. Lockdowns just gave people more opportunity to eat junk food. Officialdom continued its pharmaceutical-centric mindset, and the vast amounts of money thrown at covid research just exacerbated regulatory capture.

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I read the source document that you referenced in your article and the study you refer to did not compare health outcomes of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. It compared unvaccinated individuals with a first Covid infection to unvaccinated individuals who had a initial Covid infection and then subsequent reinfection. It is very clear in the source document. Could you explain this discrepancy?

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Title error on my part, it's been fixed. Thanks.

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The error or discrepancy I am pointing out is the entire premise of your article-- that unvaccinated fared better than vaccinated ---is not true. The study you reference excluded any individual who had the Covid vaccination. The comparison in the study looked at only unvaccinated individuals. You therefore cannot use their study to make your claim that unvaccinated fared better than vaccinated. Below is a direct excerpt from the study author's full letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Using the national SARS-CoV-2 databases as a sampling frame, our analysis included all records for SARS-CoV-2 PCR-confirmed infections (a sample size of 353,326 individuals) and related COVID-19 hospitalizations that are recorded in the national healthcare system between February 28, 2020 (the date when the first SARS-CoV-2 case was recorded) and April 28, 2021 (the closing date of the study). Individuals with a vaccination record between December 16, 2020 (first COVID-19 vaccination in Qatar) and April 28, 2021 were excluded from the analysis. These included 59,937 (68.5%) individuals vaccinated with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and 27,610 (31.5%) individuals vaccinated with mRNA-1273 (Moderna).

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The math from the Qatar letter is shown in my article. My error was to call the "naturally immune" "unvaccinated", and that has now been corrected. Thank you.

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James, what I was trying to get at is that in your article you state, "In the vaccinated, 193 cases of severe, critical or fatal COVID-19 were seen."

Those 193 cases were individuals who in fact were not vaccinated per the study. In fact none of the cases included in the study were vaccinated. The study was not designed to compare vaccinated to unvaccinated or naturally immune.

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I would also like a response to this please!

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Answered and corrected, ty

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The study says it excluded vaxxed. Where are the vaxxed numbers coming from?

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