Quote (tugofpeace @ Nov 19 2022 01:58pm)
My premise on relative risk reduction is not meaningless. The numbers I have used could be switched with Pfizers actual trial data and I would've gotten the same relative risk reduction. Those numbers are based on real world observable data, are they not?
They certainly are meaningless. If you want to argue the vaccine’s real effectiveness, you need to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated populations for transmission, hospitalization or death from Covid-19 (a different effectiveness value would be obtained for all 3).
What you’re doing is arguing the semantics of relative vs. absolute risk reduction.