And you're very good at it!

Uff-da.

I'm sorry. If you want to talk about the biopsies, I'll be glad to be a sounding board.

Every goddamn day.

It's good to have a list of obituaries in your brain meats. Even better to have a chance to use them.

For everyone else, if what I've written here is useful, feel free to do with it what you can.

I don't suppose I have many if any antivaxers left in my audience. If I do, well, I guess there's a reason you're still here. And if you like me or trust me or respect me at all, please pay attention to my words.

Oh yeah: the Methods section in the linked article provides details on data collection and analysis. It looks good to me, and I have a whole lot of experience in study design. Note that no vaccine manufacturers provided #funding. For a full list of funding sources, see the Acknowledgements.

Years of bitter experience have taught me there's no point in trying to reason with them. I still hold out hope that at least some antivax sentiment isn't that dedicated, that a lot of people are scared of getting vaccinated out of the general unease brought on by ignorance.

So when dedicated antivaxers see any of the large and ever-growing number of studies showing protective effects against more than the #infection itself, especially against the exact same problems they claim the vaccine causes, they react with mockery and/or rage. It's all they know how to do.

Lately they've added "#turbo cancer," which is not a thing that exists, to the canon.

Of course this runs directly counter to the #antivax narrative. Based on a transitory and maybe illusory increase in clotting risk from an early vaccine that's no longer on the market (Johnson & Johnson) they've built an entire mythology about "the #clot shot."

As it is, all I have to pledge is my life and my sacred honor. I take both of those pretty seriously.

I'd bet my fortune on that, if I had a fortune, because then I'd have an even bigger fortune. Have I mentioned lately that #scientists need to eat?

But the effect itself is clear. Has been from the start of the #mRNA vaccine era, really. Now a very large-scale study has confirmed it. There will be more studies, as there should be. They will show the same result.

(It also helps protect against #cancer, by an entirely different mechanism. I can natter about that if anyone wants.)

Say it with me now: further research is needed. Send me a pile of cash and I'll be happy to get on that, BTW.

The covid #vaccine—any of the currently approved vaccines—helps protect against such events. A #mechanism isn't yet clear: the obvious hypothesis is that it works by reducing the incidence and sincerity of covid, and therefore reduces the effects of the disease.