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The Paucity of Evidence for Mandated Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters

Andrew Bostom / December 6, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Given these overall randomized trial findings regarding covid-19 vaccine boosters—absence of even a short- term reduction in mild covid-19 infections in those with natural immunity, and no data establishing that boosters prevent covid-19 hospitalizations, deaths, or SARS-CoV-2 transmission—there is no rational, evidence-based justification for covid-19 vaccine “booster mandates.”

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Well-Structured German Study Shows No Deaths among Healthy German Kids Ages 5 to 11

Vinay Prasad / December 6, 2021 / Public Health, Vaccines / 3 minute read

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These results put risk to kids in perspective. They show us that school closure was wrong. They make you think of easy questions: What is the upper bound benefit for masking a 6 year old in school? Hint: even if it works (Psst unproven) it won’t be big. And, this info also suggests difficult questions: Does a healthy 8 year old who already had Covid-19 benefit from vaccination?

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Vaccine Mandates: Unscientific, Divisive, and Enormously Costly

Allon Friedman / December 2, 2021 / Public Health, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Simply put, the very best scientific study design currently available to mankind was not used to answer the most important outcomes, and the randomized trials do not support the widely held contention that COVID-19 vaccination using the Pfizer or Moderna brands lowers risk of death. This is unfortunately not the first time that FDA has approved a product based on a less important surrogate end-point rather than the key outcomes of interest.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

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Gerard Bradley / November 30, 2021 / History, Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 18 minute read

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A careful reading of Jacobson shows that it is not just an automatic consideration allowing the government to do what it wants when a pandemic emergency has been officially declared. Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not satisfy any of the required criteria in Jacobson, let alone all of them.

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Biden Administration Pushes Mandate Despite Court and OSHA

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 19, 2021 / Law, Policy, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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If OSHA repeals the implementation and enforcement of a major edict, and a court strikes it down, and no one knows about either rebuke – media hardly reported these events – has it really happened? The White House is presuming not.

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Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 12, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Technology, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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Once you understand the simplicity of his core confusions, everything else he says makes sense from his point of view. He seems forever stuck in the fallacy that the human being is a cog in a massive machine called society that cries out for his managerial and technological leadership to improve to the point of operational perfection.

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Extensive Efficacy Studies that Rebuke Vaccine Mandates

Paul Elias Alexander / October 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 42 minute read

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What these studies show, are that vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death, but unable to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually infect most of us. That is, while the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people, the public benefit of universal vaccination is in grave doubt. As such, Covid vaccines should not be expected to contribute to eliminating the communal spread of the virus or the reaching of herd immunity. This unravels the rationale for vaccine mandates and passports.

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When Vaccines Are Mandated, Who Bears the Liability?

Scott Morefield / October 12, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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Should employees who suffer adverse side effects after being coerced into taking the shot by their employer claim worker’s compensation? Absolutely they should, and they generally will be on solid ground.

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The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 12, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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A health official said of the polio epidemic: “Nobody can shut down intercourse of people in communities.” Our rights survived. So did human liberty, free enterprise, the Bill of Rights, jobs, and the American way of life. And then polio was eventually beat.

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Where Is the Science or Logic Behind Mandated Vaccines?

Michael Betrus / September 1, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 11 minute read

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The people at Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen and even frontline healthcare workers understand the science and data behind the vaccines better than anyone. If even a large minority of these people are reluctant or refuse to get vaccinated, it should tell us all something. COVID-19 is not a one-size-fits-all disease and should not be treated as such.

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