{"id":10234,"date":"2024-06-13T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10234"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:43:25","slug":"do-covid-boosters-make-you-more-likely-to-get-the-covid-virus","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/do-covid-boosters-make-you-more-likely-to-get-the-covid-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Do COVID boosters make you more likely to get the COVID virus?"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row source=”” text=”Clinical Trials” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” google_fonts=”font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” link=”” css=”.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Claim:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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A\u00a0new video<\/a> shows a doctor describing how our immune systems switch from recognizing spike proteins as dangerous to seeing them as benign when we receive repeated COVID boosters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]The doctor in the video isn\u2019t a medical doctor and is instead an\u00a0unemployed<\/a>\u00a0consultant pathologist with an\u00a0FRCPath<\/a>\u00a0degree. She is making reference to studies she thinks show that the more doses of COVID vaccine you have, the more likely you are to have COVID, which is a fundamental misunderstanding of the data. She is likely referencing\u00a0this\u00a0study<\/a>,\u00a0which looked at whether people who are up-to-date on their COVID vaccines (meaning they got at least one dose of\u00a0the\u00a0new COVID bivalent vaccine) are less likely to get COVID compared to those who are not up-to-date.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0misunderstanding comes from misreading\u00a0the\u00a0figures contained in\u00a0the\u00a0study. This is called a\u00a0Table\u00a02\u00a0fallacy.<\/em>\u00a0Often, epidemiologists need to pool together data to come up with an estimate of risk, known as an adjusted effect estimate. A\u00a0Table\u00a02\u00a0fallacy<\/a>\u00a0results from\u00a0multiple\u00a0adjusted effect estimates from a single model presented in a single\u00a0table.\u00a0Problems arise\u00a0when different types of estimates are presented on\u00a0the\u00a0same\u00a0table. This fallacy is like saying that carrying a lighter makes you more likely to get lung cancer without considering whether\u00a0the\u00a0person smokes. In studies, it\u2019s important to adjust for\u00a0the\u00a0right things.<\/p>\n

She offers a hypothesis about the virus \u201cswitching\u201d the immune system into one that recognizes the virus as benign but offers no evidence. If that were the case, however, we\u2019d see vaccinated people with more severe disease, and that\u2019s simply the\u00a0opposite<\/a>\u00a0of what\u2019s found.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unemployed consultant pathologist misinterprets data, falsely claiming more COVID vaccine doses increase infection risk. Vaccines reduce severe disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10234","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10234\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}