{"id":10291,"date":"2024-01-18T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10291"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T22:04:52","slug":"do-covid-vaccines-put-people-at-more-risk-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/do-covid-vaccines-put-people-at-more-risk-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Do COVID vaccines put people at more risk of COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anti-vaxxers are\u00a0claiming<\/a> that a Cleveland Clinic study proves that COVID vaccination puts people at greater risk for catching COVID.<\/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\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0looked at whether people who are \u201cup-to-date\u201d on their COVID-19 vaccines (meaning they got at least one dose of the new COVID-19 bivalent vaccine) are less likely to get COVID-19 compared to those who are not \u201cup-to-date.\u201d They studied employees of the Cleveland Clinic during the time when a new version of the COVID-19 virus (XBB lineages) was common.<\/p>\n

However, it looks like many people haven\u2019t read the whole study. What it really found was that the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine actually lowers the risk of infection.<\/p>\n

The misunderstanding comes from misreading the figures contained in the study. This is called a\u00a0Table 2 fallacy.<\/em>\u00a0Often, epidemiologists need to pool together data to come up with an estimate of risk, known as an adjusted effect estimate. A\u00a0Table 2 fallacy<\/a>\u00a0results from\u00a0multiple\u00a0adjusted effect estimates from a single model presented in a single table.\u00a0Problems arise\u00a0when different types of estimates are presented on\u00a0the\u00a0same table. This fallacy is like saying that carrying a lighter makes you more likely to get lung cancer, without considering whether the person smokes. In studies, it\u2019s important to adjust for the right things.<\/p>\n

For the Cleveland Clinic study, when the last dose was given to someone is more important than just counting how many doses they had. You can\u2019t conclude from the data that more vaccine doses leave one more susceptible to COVID, but you can conclude that the booster was associated with reduced COVID risk.<\/p>\n

The actual results of the study conclude that \u201cthe bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster was 30% effective in preventing infection, during the time when the virus strains dominant in the community were represented in the vaccine.\u201d\u00a0Additionally, another study in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0also showed that the bivalent booster did work:\u00a059% effective against hospitalization and 62% against hospitalization or death.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claims that COVID vaccines increase infection risk are false. A Cleveland Clinic study shows the bivalent booster reduces COVID-19 infection and hospitalization risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10291","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\/10291","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\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10291\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}