The Claim:
A viral video from a Louisiana emergency physician claims that his re-analysis of mRNA vaccine clinical trial data shows an excess risk of severe adverse events following mRNA vaccination.
The Facts:
The man in the video is an emergency room physician who sits as a member of the Public Health Integrity Committee formed by Ron DeSantis and overseen by surgeon Joseph Ladapo. He believes that the unvaccinated are more educated about vaccines than those vaccinated.
The paper he discusses claims that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines lead to an excess risk of serious adverse events. But Table 2 of the paper shows that in almost every category for both risk difference and risk ratio, the confidence interval includes 0, essentially stating that statistically “no difference was observed.”
Also an author of this paper is an AIDS denier whose position at BMJ flummoxes us all.
The original studies were done by Pfizer and Moderna during clinical trials. These were analyzed by the FDA and led to the vaccines’ approval.