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Expression of Concern: Walach et al. The Safety of COVID-19 Vaccinations—We Should Rethink the Policy. Vaccines 2021, 9, 693

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Expression of Concern
Expression of Concern: Walach et al. The Safety of
COVID-19 Vaccinations—We Should Rethink the Policy.
Vaccines 2021, 9, 693
Vaccines Editorial Office
MDPI, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland; vaccines@mdpi.com
The journal is issuing this expression of concern to alert readers to significant con-
cerns regarding the paper cited above [1].
Serious concerns have been raised about misinterpretation of the data and the con-
clusions.
The major concern is the misrepresentation of the COVID-19 vaccination efforts and
misrepresentation of the data, e.g., Abstract: “For three deaths prevented by vaccination
we have to accept two > inflicted by vaccination”. Stating that these deaths linked to vac-
cination efforts is incorrect and distorted.
We will provide an update following the conclusion of our investigation. The authors
have been notified about this Expression of Concern.
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1. Walach, H.; Klement, R.J.; Aukema, W. The Safety of COVID-19 Vaccinations—We Should Re-
think the Policy. Vaccines 2021, 9, 693, doi:10.3390/vaccines9070693.
Citation: Vaccines Editorial Office.
Expression of Concern: Walach et al.
The Safety of COVID-19
Vaccinations—We Should Rethink
the Policy. Vaccines 2021, 9, 693.
Vaccines 2021, 9, 705. https://doi.org/
10.3390/vaccines9070705
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Background: COVID-19 vaccines have had expedited reviews without sufficient safety data. We wanted to compare risks and benefits. Method: We calculated the number needed to vaccinate (NNTV) from a large Israeli field study to prevent one death. We accessed the Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) database of the European Medicines Agency and of the Dutch National Register (lareb.nl) to extract the number of cases reporting severe side effects and the number of cases with fatal side effects. Result: The NNTV is between 200–700 to prevent one case of COVID-19 for the mRNA vaccine marketed by Pfizer, while the NNTV to prevent one death is between 9000 and 50,000 (95% confidence interval), with 16,000 as a point estimate. The number of cases experiencing adverse reactions has been reported to be 700 per 100,000 vaccinations. Currently, we see 16 serious side effects per 100,000 vaccinations, and the number of fatal side effects is at 4.11/100,000 vaccinations. For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination. Conclusions: This lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy.
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