{"id":669,"date":"2022-02-02T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:55:15","slug":"we-know-whether-the-covid-vaccines-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2022\/we-know-whether-the-covid-vaccines-work\/","title":{"rendered":"We know whether the COVID vaccines work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The COVID vaccines have been rejected by some people, especially in the USA. The reasons vary from lies about the use of aborted babies in their production, to doubts about how well they work. (A so-called &#8216;pro-life&#8217; group has said there are no moral reasons not to use the Moderna, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, or even Johnson and Johnson vaccines &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/public-health\/commentary\/the-covid-vaccine-and-the-pro-life-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-urges-everyone-get-covid-19-vaccines-good-all-2021-08-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"source 2\">source 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To clarify that they do work, these graphs provide a very clear, simple comparison of similar countries. The country with the largest proportion of deaths (regardless of population size), is the country with the lowest rate of vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"842\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png 842w, https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/02\/01\/science\/covid-deaths-united-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/02\/01\/science\/covid-deaths-united-states.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID vaccines have been rejected by some people, especially in the USA. The reasons vary from lies about the use of aborted babies in their production, to doubts about how well they work. (A so-called &#8216;pro-life&#8217; group has said there are no moral reasons not to use the Moderna, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, or even Johnson and Johnson vaccines &#8211; source 1, source 2). To clarify that they do work, these graphs provide a very clear, simple comparison of similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2022\/we-know-whether-the-covid-vaccines-work\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}