https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v1
Thsi article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed
Key take aways:
- Study endpoints reported here are vaccine efficacy (VE) against laboratory-confirmed COVID-19
- No report on how this vaccine can reduce severe COVID: patient hospitalization, ICU admission, and death
- Decreased appetite, lethargy, asthenia, malaise, night sweats, and hyperhidrosis wre new adverse events not previously identified in earlier reports
- During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo recipients died; during the open-label period, 3 BNT162b2 and 2 original placebo recipients who received BNT162b2 after unblinding died - this means no impact on COVID related death between vaccined and unvaccined control group - probably data size is too small
- Some of the test group already had previousl COVID infection (3% of the tested people), among them, 19 had COVID infection again during the testing period: 2 cases in vaccine and 7 in placebo recipients - this is really small data size but was used to spport the current practice of immunizing without screening for evidence of prior infection