In a stunning finding, Ohio State University researchers published a paper on February 6th that challenges the mainstream narrative surrounding mRNA vaccines and their effectiveness. The researchers discovered that vaccinated Covid patients hospitalized with respiratory failure were actually more likely to die than those who were unjabbed. The mortality rate for vaccinated patients was 70 percent, compared to 37 percent for the unvaccinated.
This alarming gap in mortality rates persisted even when the researchers matched patients by age and comorbidities, leading them to conclude that vaccination status is not instructive in determining mortality risk for hospitalized Covid patients.
The Ohio State study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, also revealed that vaccinated patients tended to have higher levels of IgG4 antibodies during their third week of hospitalization. This finding is noteworthy because previous studies have shown that mRNA jab recipients develop higher levels of IgG4 antibodies, which promote the immune system's tolerance of pathogens like viruses rather than launching a full-on attack.
While the Ohio State paper focused on a single hospital and 152 patients, other studies have also found that vaccinated Covid patients do not have a survival advantage once they are hospitalized. Spanish researchers published a paper in the European Respiratory Journal in November 2021, showing that fully vaccinated patients had slightly higher death rates than a matched group of unvaccinated patients. Similarly, Italian physicians reported in a January 2023 paper that vaccinated patients admitted to intermediate care units were more than twice as likely to die as unvaccinated patients.
One reason why single-hospital papers often show worse vaccine outcomes than larger datasets from public health authorities is due to how vaccinated patients who have received only one shot are categorized. In agglomerated papers, these patients are labeled as unvaccinated, which makes the vaccines appear more effective statistically but does nothing to help the patients who have received them.
A larger study conducted by Centers for Disease Control researchers in 2022 also found that vaccinations did not lower the risk of severe disease or death in Covid-hospitalized patients.
These papers challenge the claims made by vaccine advocates over the past three years. In the summer and fall of 2021, the media and doctors insisted that vaccinated people fared better than the unjabbed even after hospitalization. However, doctors have become more cautious about making such promises since the start of 2022, as the truth about vaccine efficacy has become harder to deny.
The failure of fall 2021 boosters forced even vaccine enthusiasts to acknowledge that mRNA vaccines would not provide durable immunity against Covid or achieve herd immunity. The only remaining claim was that the shots would reduce the severity of infections, which was unfalsifiable on an individual level.
However, large datasets now show that mRNA vaccines do not significantly reduce infections. The original two-shot regimen targeted a strain of Sars-Cov-2 that no longer exists, and any added protection from boosters wanes within weeks. Furthermore, hospital outcome reports suggest that the vaccines offer little to no protection for those whose infections progress to the point of hospital admission.
So, if the vaccines have any value at this point, it must be in the days after someone contracts Covid but before they become severely ill. The mRNAs were designed to stimulate both B-cell and T-cell responses, with the T-cell response lasting longer and focusing on parts of the coronavirus that mutate more slowly than antibodies. However, a naturally infected person should also mount a T-cell attack within days, raising questions about the effectiveness of the mRNA shots.
The theory put forth by vaccine advocates is that the shots somehow drive a T-cell response in vulnerable populations that offers a meaningful advantage over their own immune response to natural infection. However, it is also possible that the vaccines have not offered any protection against Covid at any stage of infection since early 2022.
The conflicting narratives raise important questions about the true effectiveness of mRNA vaccines and the claims made by vaccine advocates. While some argue that the shots remain helpful despite their flaws, others believe they have been effectively useless since late 2021, with all side effects and no upside.
