A popular YouTuber has misinterpreted a new study about vaccinating children against Covid in Singapore. The comparison Dr John Campbell makes is flawed, and its conclusion is misleading.
In any case, Dr Campbell does not count the total number of hospitalisations with Covid . He counts only the hospitalisations that needed oxygen treatment , with theHowever the study itself does not say that the other 283 admissions were non-serious or “precautionary” cases.
He does this despite not knowing whether these adverse events were as serious as the cases of children needing supplemental oxygen, or whether they were even caused by the vaccine. The events are described by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority in a document cited in the original study.that an adverse event is classified “serious” when “the event resulted in hospitalisation/extended stay in hospital, resulted in a significant reduction in functioning level/disability, resulted in a life-threatening illness or death, resulted in birth defects or is a medically important event”.
It is therefore possible that some of the 22 events Dr Campbell mentions “resulted in hospitalisation”, but were in fact less serious than some of the 283 hospital admissions with Covid that he disregards. Dr Campbell also incorrectly suggests that these serious events were caused by the vaccines, including when he describes them as a “reaction to vaccine” in the video note.: “It is important to note that the [adverse events] reported do not necessarily mean that the vaccine has caused these [adverse events] as they may be related to an underlying or undiagnosed disease or the natural progression of an underlying disease.
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