We’ve already fact checked Andrew Bridgen’s claims about Covid-19 vaccines twice in recent weeks. Now we’ve fact checked some of his latest comments in Tuesday’s vaccine debate 👇
level of risk at the time, so any estimate of absolute risk reduction of a Covid-19 related outcome is dependent on the prevalence of Covid-19 at the time.is likely to be less relevant to the actual absolute risk reduction in real-world situations.
Child study showed frequency of adverse events after Covid vaccination was comparable to that after non-Covid vaccination: “In a Westminster Hall debate some weeks ago, I quoted a report by the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] studying the effect of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccination on children under five years of age. It showed that one in 200 had an adverse event that resulted in hospitalisation, and symptoms that lasted longer than 90 days.
The study also didn’t find that adverse events after Covid vaccination were more common than after other vaccination. It said: “The overall frequency of adverse events after vaccination with [Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine] was comparable with the frequency of adverse events after vaccination with approved non–SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in children younger than 5 years.”
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