{"id":10709,"date":"2023-06-01T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=10709"},"modified":"2024-08-04T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T23:40:55","slug":"22000-for-one-life-saved","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/22000-for-one-life-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"22,000 for one life saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/1662051461352632324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3D682f8cce22%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686114107380000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0rKMLA7M65weaXLRdvMcHx\">environmental lawyer and presidential candidate<\/a>\u00a0is taking to television to claim that 22,000 vaccines need to be administered to prevent one death from COVID, but the vaccinated have a 23% greater death rate from all causes than their unvaccinated peers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/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=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Pharmaceutical companies released data from a randomized, placebo-controlled COVID vaccine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.07.28.21261159v1.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3D9371d89a45%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686114107380000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0afy3gZunl4o8XrPXT_wRN\">trial<\/a>\u00a0showing that the vaccine was 97% effective at preventing\u00a0severe disease for the six months it was studied.<\/p>\n<p>As with any vaccine trial, all deaths during the study period, whether or not the death was caused by the vaccine, are included in the data as well. In this case, 14 people who received the placebo died,\u00a0and 15 people who received the vaccine died. Two people who received a placebo died from COVID,\u00a0and one person who was vaccinated died from COVID pneumonia. No one\u2019s death was\u00a0caused by\u00a0the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(23)00461-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3Dc7d72ad73d%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686114107380000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3sNKx_j0BFKdSgnt375uPa\">Studies<\/a>\u00a0show that communities with many people vaccinated against COVID had lower death rates during the pandemic than those communities with low vaccination rates.\u00a0Furthermore,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated-20-million-lives-1-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3D6c227198f9%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686114107380000&amp;usg=AOvVaw15pljD7hwsMleb1ZrISoy-\">estimates suggest<\/a>\u00a0the COVID vaccines saved 20 million lives in their first year globally. If everyone in the U.S. who was eligible had received a COVID vaccine, over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/05\/13\/1098071284\/this-is-how-many-lives-could-have-been-saved-with-covid-vaccinations-in-each-sta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/voicesforvaccines.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3De17a65409cd8f13ba7e58cc97%26id%3Dfed2948846%26e%3Dfc0735be13&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686114107380000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2vlmMY5iT6LNs_GMN1ekyw\">300,000 lives<\/a>\u00a0would have been saved.<\/p>\n<p>Our environmental lawyer candidate\u2019s numbers sound quite official, but they are fabricated and dwarfed by the real toll of COVID and the potential of the vaccine against it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/toolkits\/community-immunity-toolkit\/understanding-community-immunity\/\">Learn more about community immunity.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claim that 22,000 vaccines are needed to save one life from COVID and that vaccinated people have a 23% higher death rate is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10709","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\/10709","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\/10709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10709\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}