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Are Vaccinated COVID Patients Dying at Nearly Twice the Rate of Unvaccinated?

Vincent Iannelli, MD

Why do some people think that vaccinated COVID patients are dying at nearly twice the rate of unvaccinated?

Study after study has shown that vaccinated COVID patients are not dying more often than those who are not vaccinated. This bombshell is another dud.

The usual suspects…

Are Vaccinated COVID Patients Dying at Nearly Twice the Rate of Unvaccinated?

Anti-vaccine influencers are laundering information through their sites and social media platforms about a study done on some patients hospitalized with COVID at The Ohio State University hospitals.

It is important for people to really read these studies and not simply repost them. They don’t show want anti-vaccine influencers claim.

The study doesn’t really mean what they think it does though…

So why did more vaccinated than non-vaccinated patients die at this hospital?

It could certainly be that the most high risk folks got vaccinated before those who were healthier.

“The Charlson’s Comorbidity Index score (CCI) was also significantly higher among Vax vs. NVax COVID-19 patients.”

Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19

And that the vaccinated patients with the most risk factors who end up in the hospital.

“Out of the 23 Vax patients, 26% (6 patients) had received 3 vaccine doses, 30% (7 patients) had received 2 doses (BNT162b2/mRNA-1273), 5% (1 patient) had received 2 doses of an unspecified (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine, and 9% (2 patients) received Ad26.COV2-S vaccine at least two weeks prior to hospital admission.”

Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19

And it is important to note that the study is only talking about 23 vaccinated patients – many of whom were not even completely vaccinated!

“Before 2022, 1 in 10 US COVID-19 deaths occurred at home.”

Dying at Home Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019

Also, we should consider that many unvaccinated people with COVID may have died before they even made it to the hospital!

On the Ohio State University Study Showing Vaccinated COVID Patients Had a Higher Risk of Death Than the Unvaccinated

So what were the conclusions of the Ohio State University Study?

“Although our cohort size is small, our results suggest that vaccination status of hospital-admitted COVID-19 patients may not be instructive in determining mortality risk. This may reflect that within the general population, those individuals at highest risk for COVID-19 mortality/immune failure are likely to be vaccinated. Importantly, the value of vaccination may be in preventing hospitalization as opposed to stratifying outcome among hospitalized patients, although our data do not address this possibility.”

Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19

Lastly, this ‘bombshell’ Ohio State University Study, even if its findings actually did say what anti-vaccine influencers think it says, would be an outlier among all of the other studies that found a benefit to being vaccinated:

Or in other words – another bombshell report ends up being a dud…

More on the Ohio State University COVID Study

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