A major study by Stanford University and Italian researchers has found that the COVID-19 vaccine saved far fewer lives than originally thought.
The World Health Organization previously asserted that the jabs prevented as many as 14.4 million deaths in their first year, with some estimates going as high as 20 million.
Yet according to this latest study, the actual number of lives saved globally throughout the entire pandemic is likely closer to 2.5 million.
The data suggests that the vast majority of those spared were elderly, with roughly 90% of prevented deaths occurring among individuals over 60.
Among younger groups, the numbers were strikingly low: just 299 lives saved worldwide among people under 20, and 1,808 in the 20 to 30 age bracket.
The study also quantified the number of vaccinations needed to save a single life.
Across all ages, an average of 5,400 doses were required per life saved. For those under 30, that figure soared to 100,000 jabs.
Researchers also questioned the rationale behind blanket vaccine mandates, particularly for low-risk populations, and criticised the excessive drive to vaccinate all individuals regardless of age or vulnerability.
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They added that such findings should inform more targeted and evidence-based strategies in future public health campaigns.
The study’s author, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University John Ioannidis, said that “early estimates were based on many parameters having values that are incompatible with our current understanding.”
“In principle, targeting the populations who would get the vast majority of the benefit and letting alone those with questionable risk-benefit and cost-benefit makes a lot of sense.
“Aggressive mandates and the zealotry to vaccinate everyone at all cost were probably a bad idea.”
Dr Angelo Maria Pezzullo, researcher in general and applied hygiene at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, said this was the most reliable study to date.
“Before ours, several studies tried to estimate lives saved by vaccines with different models and in different periods or parts of the world, but this one is the most comprehensive because it is based on worldwide data,” she explained.
“It also calculates the number of years of life that were saved, and it is based on fewer assumptions about the pandemic trend.”
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These adverse reactions often involved young and healthy individuals dying suddenly from heart attacks or blood clots.
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