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Vaccine recipients had lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality than did unvaccinated persons
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<blockquote data-quote="RestoreTheJoy" data-source="post: 76316539" data-attributes="member: 411383"><p><strong>VSD, a collaborative project between CDC’s Immunization Safety Office and nine health care organizations, collects electronic health data, </strong> including information on vaccines, for specific studies. In this cohort study of VSD members aged ≥12 years, vaccination status through May 31, 2021 was determined. Index dates were assigned to all persons on the basis of the distribution of vaccination dates among vaccinated persons.¶ Person-time for unvaccinated persons included unvaccinated person-time before COVID-19 vaccination among COVID-19 vaccinees, and unvaccinated person-time of persons who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine by May 31, 2021. <span style="color: #b30059"><strong>To ensure comparable health care–seeking behavior among persons who received a COVID-19 vaccine and those who did not (unvaccinated persons), eligible unvaccinated persons were selected from among those who received ≥1 dose of influenza vaccine in the last 2 years.</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The findings in this report are <strong>subject to at least four limitations</strong>. First, the study was observational, and individual-level confounders that were <strong>not adjusted for might affect mortality risk, including baseline health status, underlying conditions, health care utilization, and socioeconomic status.</strong> Second, healthy vaccinee effects were found in all but the youngest age group. Such effects were also found in a cohort study conducted in a nursing home population, which reported substantially lower aRRs for 7-day mortality among vaccinated residents after dose 1 (0.34) and dose 2 (0.49) as compared with unvaccinated residents (<em>5</em>). <strong>Lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality in vaccinated groups suggest that COVID-19 vaccinees are inherently healthier or engage in fewer risk behaviors </strong>(<em>7</em>,<em>8</em>); future analyses will address these issues. Third, <strong>although deaths associated with COVID-19 were excluded, causes of death were not assessed.</strong> It is possible that the algorithm used might have <strong>misclassified some deaths associated with COVID-19 because of lack of testing or because individual mortality reviews were not conducted. Finally, the findings might not be applicable to the general population. </strong>The VSD includes approximately 3% of the U.S. population, and is representative of the general population with regard to several demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (<em>9</em>). Other studies have already demonstrated the safety of COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States.</p><p></p><p>So highly cherry-picked group of data that includes only those who get flu shots every year or every other. Okie dokie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RestoreTheJoy, post: 76316539, member: 411383"] [B]VSD, a collaborative project between CDC’s Immunization Safety Office and nine health care organizations, collects electronic health data, [/B] including information on vaccines, for specific studies. In this cohort study of VSD members aged ≥12 years, vaccination status through May 31, 2021 was determined. Index dates were assigned to all persons on the basis of the distribution of vaccination dates among vaccinated persons.¶ Person-time for unvaccinated persons included unvaccinated person-time before COVID-19 vaccination among COVID-19 vaccinees, and unvaccinated person-time of persons who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine by May 31, 2021. [COLOR=#b30059][B]To ensure comparable health care–seeking behavior among persons who received a COVID-19 vaccine and those who did not (unvaccinated persons), eligible unvaccinated persons were selected from among those who received ≥1 dose of influenza vaccine in the last 2 years.[/B][/COLOR] The findings in this report are [B]subject to at least four limitations[/B]. First, the study was observational, and individual-level confounders that were [B]not adjusted for might affect mortality risk, including baseline health status, underlying conditions, health care utilization, and socioeconomic status.[/B] Second, healthy vaccinee effects were found in all but the youngest age group. Such effects were also found in a cohort study conducted in a nursing home population, which reported substantially lower aRRs for 7-day mortality among vaccinated residents after dose 1 (0.34) and dose 2 (0.49) as compared with unvaccinated residents ([I]5[/I]). [B]Lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality in vaccinated groups suggest that COVID-19 vaccinees are inherently healthier or engage in fewer risk behaviors [/B]([I]7[/I],[I]8[/I]); future analyses will address these issues. Third, [B]although deaths associated with COVID-19 were excluded, causes of death were not assessed.[/B] It is possible that the algorithm used might have [B]misclassified some deaths associated with COVID-19 because of lack of testing or because individual mortality reviews were not conducted. Finally, the findings might not be applicable to the general population. [/B]The VSD includes approximately 3% of the U.S. population, and is representative of the general population with regard to several demographic and socioeconomic characteristics ([I]9[/I]). Other studies have already demonstrated the safety of COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States. So highly cherry-picked group of data that includes only those who get flu shots every year or every other. Okie dokie. [/QUOTE]
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