A team of experts from different fields, including medical statisticians and a medical anthropologist, has rebutted a recent article published in a Canadian medical journal that defends the use of COVID-19 vaccine mandates by claiming that a mathematical model shows unvaccinated people increase the risk of infection among the vaccinated.
“It is especially problematic that a modelling paper so detached from reality contains such explicit and strong condemnation of ‘the unvaccinated,’” said James Doidge, a senior medical statistician from the UK’s Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre, along with his fellow contributors, in a reply posted on the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) website on April 28.
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