We learned that a "95% effective vaccine" doesn't mean what the marking department wants you to believe it means; when you look at the reduction in deaths between the groups taking into account the size of the groups.
Here's the trickery in the statistics. 20 deaths reduced to 1 death = 95% reduction in deaths! Now take into account the size of the groups: 20 deaths in a group of a million unvaccinated people = 0.000020 death rate 1 death in a group of a million vaccinated people = 0.000001 death rate 0.000020 minus 0.000001 = 0.000019 Math check: 0.000019 x 1,000,000 = 19 more deaths...correct. The reduction in the death rate, between the groups, is 0.000019 or 0.0019%...this number is ignored, instead you hear, constantly, "95% EFFECTIVE!" which is the truth, but not the whole truth! ~~~~~ Take a look at the real world results considering the group sizes The New England Journal of Medicine 1,193,236 participants in a vaccine efficacy study 0.0039% = 0.000039 more deaths occurred in the unvaccinated group. The Lancet - Vaccine Results in Israel 6,538,911 total participants in a vaccine efficacy study 0.036% = 0.00036 more deaths occurred in the unvaccinated group. "efficacy" is a statistical ZERO when you take into account the size of the groups. This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. T.S. Eliot
