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2025-07-27 11:44:21 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

This post is a perfect example of survivorship bias. The author of the post asserts that, since some people survived Covid-19 without being vaccinated, the vaccine was unnecessary. But this reasoning ignores those who died unvaccinated (> those who died vaccinated). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/11/19/coronavirus-deaths-understanding-ons-data-on-mortality-and-vaccination-status/ https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/study-does-not-say-covid-vaccines-may-have-fuelled-excess-deaths-2024-06-13/

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• This post is a perfect example of survivorship bias. The author of the post asserts that, since some people survived Covid-19 without being vaccinated, the vaccine was unnecessary. But this reasoning ignores those who died unvaccinated (> those who died vaccinated). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/11/19/coronavirus-deaths-understanding-ons-data-on-mortality-and-vaccination-status/ https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/study-does-not-say-covid-vaccines-may-have-fuelled-excess-deaths-2024-06-13/