Launching this $10 million lawsuit against Pfizer, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that the company intentionally misrepresented the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine by promoting the shot’s ‘relative risk reduction’ rather than its ‘absolute risk reduction.’
To understand this, imagine a disease where the general population has a 15 percent risk of dying from it. If a new treatment reduces that risk to 10 percent, then the absolute risk reduction resulting from the treatment would be 5 percent.
To make things sound more impressive, however, we could instead choose to describe the efficacy of the treatment in terms of its relative risk reduction. Using this approach, the treatment could be said to have reduced the risk of death by one third (i.e. from 15 percent to 10 percent). As such, we could claim the treatment has an efficacy of 33.3 percent – clearly a far more impressive-sounding result than the 5 percent described using its relative risk reduction.
Significantly, therefore, in its promotion of mRNA vaccines, the vaccine industry has almost exclusively used the more impressive-sounding relative risk reduction numbers. As such, we are told that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, what we are not being told is that this claim is based on only two months of clinical trial data and that the vaccine’s absolute risk reduction is a mere 0.85 percent.
To learn more about the misleading way in which COVID-19 vaccines have been promoted, see this article on our website.
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December 15, 2023Texas Attorney General Sues Pfizer, Accusing it of Overstating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness
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Texas is suing Pfizer over claims the drugmaker made about its Covid shot. The state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused the pharma giant of misrepresenting the vaccine’s efficacy.
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Launching this $10 million lawsuit against Pfizer, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that the company intentionally misrepresented the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine by promoting the shot’s ‘relative risk reduction’ rather than its ‘absolute risk reduction.’
To understand this, imagine a disease where the general population has a 15 percent risk of dying from it. If a new treatment reduces that risk to 10 percent, then the absolute risk reduction resulting from the treatment would be 5 percent.
To make things sound more impressive, however, we could instead choose to describe the efficacy of the treatment in terms of its relative risk reduction. Using this approach, the treatment could be said to have reduced the risk of death by one third (i.e. from 15 percent to 10 percent). As such, we could claim the treatment has an efficacy of 33.3 percent – clearly a far more impressive-sounding result than the 5 percent described using its relative risk reduction.
Significantly, therefore, in its promotion of mRNA vaccines, the vaccine industry has almost exclusively used the more impressive-sounding relative risk reduction numbers. As such, we are told that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, what we are not being told is that this claim is based on only two months of clinical trial data and that the vaccine’s absolute risk reduction is a mere 0.85 percent.
To learn more about the misleading way in which COVID-19 vaccines have been promoted, see this article on our website.
Dr. Rath Health Foundation
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