JAMA Modeling Study Claims COVID-19 Vaccines Saved Lives: Seven Threats to Validity

Debunked by Flawed Assumptions, Uncontrolled Confounding, and Institutional Bias

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Nearly six years into the COVID-19 vaccine debacle the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is desperately reaching for some justification for the immunization campaign. The public understands the vaccines are not safe, and were not effective in stopping SARS-CoV-2 infection or preventing transmission. However, the final claim by the Complex making global vaccination “all worth it” is the refrain “vaccination saved lives.” A recent modeling study by Ioannides et al was appeared in JAMA, a journal exclusively published only favorable manuscripts on COVID-19 vaccination.

In the main analysis, more than 2.5 million deaths were averted (1 death averted per 5400 vaccine doses administered). Eighty-two percent were among people vaccinated before any infection, 57% were during the Omicron period, and 90% pertained to people 60 years or older.