Flaws and uncertainties in pandemic global excess death calculations

JPA Ioannidis, F Zonta, M Levitt - European journal of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Several teams have been publishing global estimates of excess deaths during the COVID‐
19 pandemic. Here, we examine potential flaws and underappreciated sources of …

[HTML][HTML] The novelty of mRNA viral vaccines and potential harms: a scoping review

MTJ Halma, J Rose, T Lawrie - J, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pharmacovigilance databases are showing evidence of injury in the context of the modified
COVID-19 mRNA products. According to recent publications, adverse event reports linked to …

Estimates of COVID‐19 deaths in Mainland China after abandoning zero COVID policy

JPA Ioannidis, F Zonta, M Levitt - European journal of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background China witnessed a surge of Omicron infections after abandoning 'zero
COVID'strategies on 7 December 2022. The authorities report very sparse deaths based on …

Variability in excess deaths across countries with different vulnerability during 2020–2023

JPA Ioannidis, F Zonta, M Levitt - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Excess deaths provide total impact estimates of major crises, such as the COVID-19
pandemic. We evaluated excess death trajectories across countries with accurate death …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere

DG Rancourt, M Baudin, J Hickey… - Correlation Research in …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Abstract Seventeen equatorial and Southern-Hemisphere countries were studied
(Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Zealand …

Effectiveness of a fourth SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine dose in previously infected individuals from Austria

A Chalupka, L Richter, A Chakeri… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Evidence is limited on the effectiveness of a fourth vaccine dose against
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in populations with prior severe acute respiratory …

Autoimmune inflammatory reactions triggered by the COVID-19 genetic vaccines in terminally differentiated tissues

P Polykretis, A Donzelli, JC Lindsay, D Wiseman… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
As a result of the spread of SARS-CoV-2, a global pandemic was declared. Indiscriminate
COVID-19 vaccination has been extended to include age groups and naturally immune …

Long COVID as a functional somatic symptom disorder caused by abnormally precise prior expectations during Bayesian perceptual processing: A new hypothesis …

AR Joffe, A Elliott - SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This review proposes a model of Long-COVID where the constellation of symptoms are in
fact genuinely experienced persistent physical symptoms that are usually functional in …

[HTML][HTML] Study of optimal vaccination strategies for early COVID-19 pandemic using an age-structured mathematical model: A case study of the USA

G Luebben, G González-Parra… - Mathematical …, 2023 - aimspress.com
In this paper we study different vaccination strategies that could have been implemented for
the early COVID-19 pandemic. We use a demographic epidemiological mathematical model …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infection probabilities with serological data and a Bayesian mixture model

B Glemain, X de Lamballerie, M Zins, G Severi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The individual results of SARS-CoV-2 serological tests measured after the first pandemic
wave of 2020 cannot be directly interpreted as a probability of having been infected. Plus …