(11-30-2021, 08:02 AM)Blue Bird Wrote: Here is a study published in the Thuringian state parliament based on data of the Federal office of statistics and the Robert Koch Institute. It compares the vaccination rate of all German federal states with the excess mortality. The result: The higher the vaccination rate, the higher the excess mortality.
(in German: https://www.rundschau.info/studie-zur-ue...blichkeit/)
Were this submitted to a medical journal, this article would have been subjected to rigorous peer-review. A point that would surely have been raised is that this 'study' only looked at 34 days of data, supposedly trying to explain 7,247 deaths (10٪ above average*) without any account taken of vaccination status. The politician authors would have needed to justify their methodology for picking such a short time span, this particular short time span, and their failure to look at the vaccination status of those who died. The peer-reviewers would have demanded that they address these issues with a longer term analysis in a much larger population rigorously controlling for vaccination status. Failing this, it would not have been accepted for publication in any credible peer-reviewed journal. It's no wonder the authors of this report have distanced themselves from the way the data have been used. In contrast, here is a peer-reviewed article in a medical journal that looked at 7 months of data from 11 million demographically matched vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The authors, 15 scientists, came to the opposite conclusion.
*An average that can fluctuate as much as 40% at some points when tracked continuously and comparing the same calendar time point in different years. See here.