‘It’s Not Science’: JAMA Study Claiming COVID Vaccines Saved Millions is Fundamentally Flawed

A report in JAMA Health Forum that estimates COVID-19 vaccines saved between 1.4 million and 4 million lives is false and based on flawed assumptions, according to a preprint paper published this week by Correlation, a Canadian nonprofit research organization.

All-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., argued in the preprint that the inputs used by Dr. John Ioannidis and his colleagues for their COVID-19 vaccine calculations were based on incorrect assumptions about infection fatality rates and vaccine efficacy.

The authors of the JAMA paper also didn’t account for harms from vaccines or compare their results to real-world data, Rancourt said.

Rancourt said his critique exposes the “mental game” used by the scientists to build a case for the COVID-19 vaccines’ lifesaving abilities. He said:

“The formula they’re applying is elegant and straightforward — anybody can understand it.

“But look at the components inside the formula. They’re based on nothing. They’re based on something that is nothing, that is based on something else that is nothing, and so on. This is nonsense. It’s not science. It’s just manipulation of concocted data.

“Here’s a smart man applying a formula, but the outcome is garbage. There is no reason to believe that any lives were saved.”