Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Pfizer is conducting their Covid study all wrong. They're basing it on symptoms. But, we've been told all along that Covid infection may or may not cause symptoms. And even if it doesn't cause symptoms, the Covid carrier can still infect others. Isn't that how most people are getting infected? Because: there are a lot of people who are wearing the mask and social distancing and still getting it. And since Covid symptoms can mimic other illnesses like cold and flu, or even manifest in a completely non-respiratory way, it's very problematic to go by symptoms.

What they should have done is started with their 43,538 volunteers and made sure they were all Covid negative. Then you give half the vaccine and half the placebo. Then you see how many of them turn Covid positive. A positive Covid test is the only distinguishing feature of Covid- not any symptom.

But, they are going by symptoms, and amazingly, they're claiming that only 94 out of 43,538 people developed symptoms. I should think that in any group of 43,538 people that more than 94 would develop symptoms over a period of months. But, they are claiming that only 94 did, and of those 94, 90% did not receive the vaccine.

But, it is ridiculous to start with 43,538 people and then only consider the effect on 94. If they went by whether people tested positive for Covid, then the outcome for all 43,538 people would be considered. The way they're doing it, the outcome for 43,444 people is being ignored.

And of the 94 who developed symptoms, do they know whether they were Covid positive or negative to begin with? And did they confirm whether they tested positive for Covid after developing symptoms? Because, people can still get fever and cough the old-fashioned way from colds and flu.

But honestly, this is ridiculous. A positive Covid test is considered evidence of infection, so if they had gone by that, instead of symptoms, it would have measured the outcome in all 43,538 participants, rather than 94. The stupidity of this is staggering.