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I consider The Cat to be mostly a muckraker (although I'm not positive that's the word I'm looking for). I've caught a few things where he misrepresents (or leaves out key information) on a subject or an event in order to agitate. But it does get lots of comments and it does keep readers agitated so - success! 😜

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Thanks for pointing out the flaw in Gato's post. How did he possibly make that mistake???

It makes me worry about him a little.

What matters in this kind of analysis is the comparison between the pre booster rate (double vax) and the post-booster-pre-effect rate ("early prebooster"), which in this case are basically the same rate. So there's really no effect here. Who knows what's going on in the other days they excluded, that is a little fishy, but it's unlikely to be so bad as to make the shots ineffective... perhaps less effective though.

A fair way to calculate this would probably add the raw count of excess pre-boster events, that are over and above the pre-existing doublevax rate, to the raw booster counts, and use the original denominator for boosted days. That we we only put the extra events on boosting's tab.

A few people in his comments section also called this out.

I hope he retracts it, he retracted another post recently, although I didn't actually see a problem with it (I didn't look too hard though).

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