This is part 2 of exposing the vaccine efficacy lie that is being perpetuated by Big Pharma companies. In my previous post, I showed how Pfizer’s claim 95% vaccine efficacy is a lie and explained how their actual absolute risk reduction is approximately 0.84%. This time, I’ll explain how Moderna also manipulates data to convince you that their vaccine is safe using the same methodology. Link is below:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389

In Moderna’s research summary titled “Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine “ on Dec. 30th 2020, you will find a a table indicating the number of cases of symptomatic and severe COVID cases in both the vaccinated and placebo group.

In this table, you will see that the vaccinated and control group consisted of 14,550 participants and 14,598 participants, respectively.

Out of all the participants in this part of the study only 11 people in the vaccinated group and 185 people in the control group were considered to have symptomatic COVID-19 cases. Here’s how you get absolute risk reduction from their data:

185/14,598 cases in the control group comes out to be 1.267%. 11/14,550 cases in the vaccinated group equals 0.0756%.

Absolute risk reduction is the difference between the percentage of cases in both the control and the vaccinated group. That number being 1.267%-0.0756%=1.191%

This is the scientifically, biologically and mathematically meaningful efficacy rate. In other words, Moderna’s vaccine actually has a little greater than a 1% chance of efficacy of protecting you against COVID-19.

So how are we told their vaccine is 94% effective?

You take the 11 cases in the vaccinated group and the 185 cases in the control group and add them together. Now you have a total of 196 cases with 185 being from the control group. Relative risk reduction is the number of cases from the control over the total number of cases in both groups.

So 185/196≈94.4%.

Relative risk reduction is scientifically meaningless because it doesn’t take into account the entire sample size in both the control and vaccinated groups. And besides, no one would take a vaccine with a 1% efficacy rate so they lie to us saying something mathematically accurate (185/196 is indeed approx. 94%) but medically meaningless.