The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you combine those, it turns out that you actually did get lower death rates in the in the vaccinated arm than the placebo arm. The J&J vaccine had lower death rates, statistically significant once you combine the trials.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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The mRNA vaccines had more deaths in the in the treatment arm than in the placebo arm, but the size of the samples were such that you couldn't say that that was a statistically meaningful result.
You couldn't say they reduced death rates because it didn't actually in the point estimate and there was not again any statistically significant difference in the Astroenica and the J&J vaccines.