by Steve Kirsch, Steve Kirsch’s newsletter:
A new paper by Girma and Paton shows a dubious, small, short-lived benefit in initial vaccination on nursing home residents. For boosters, the effect was HARMFUL and HIGHLY statistically significant.
Update
This article has been corrected to reflect that all measures were resident impacts.
Executive summary
A new paper by Girma and Paton showed by using machine learning a small but dubious (and short lived) benefit for nursing home residents in 2 of 3 metrics. In other words, they couldn’t find a definitive benefit for the primary series and they found NO benefit for additional shots.
