Re: Pneumonia vaccination and death due to all-causes and pneumonia

[Guest guest]

That the vaccine has an all-cause reduction greater than just the

pneumonia effect doesn't surprise me. If the individual's immune

system is weakened by the bout with pneumonia, and they succumb to

something else afterwards, the fatality is likely not attributed to

the pneumonia. Or if they've got pneumonia but are felled by what is

apparently a heart attack, which one gets the blame?

I don't recall the exact quote, but it was to the effect that in the

end, all deaths are due to heart failure.

Iris

--- In , " Alan Pater " <apater@m...>

wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> That all-cause death reduction should be even greater after

vaccination than

> death due to pneumonia surprised me. I do not know why I should go

against

> the odds.