Looking at a sample of 18 nations who simultaneously published weekly COVID jab dosing as well as weekly ICU admissions, no protective effect of COVID jabs on ICU admissions was realized in the data.
To test the hypothesis that ICU admissions after the rise of Omicron variant are driven by the jab uptake rates themselves — instead of being prevented by the jabs — I looked at France. Here is the date of Omicron dominance in France:
And here is the regression of 6-months of jab uptake along with current weekly ICU admissions per million:
The correlation suggests that, for every person out of 100 who has received a recent jab (prior 6 months), the weekly ICU admissions will rise by another 0.67 per million.
A benchmark for “very high ICU use” can be the peak flu ICU use observed at the start of 2018 in the USA, when it is estimated that the weekly ICU admissions per million hit 15.5 weekly ICU admissions per million.
The most outstanding feature of the graph is that, when 100 persons out of 100 had received a recent jab (prior 6 months) the weekly ICU admissions per million were more than double what can be considered to be “very high” ICU admissions (using USA as a benchmark).
Having essentially everyone in France “up-to-date” on their COVID jabs led to ultra-high ICU admission rates.
Caution in interpretation requires understanding that a time series graph would be a mirror image, because throughout the 21 weeks of data in the graph, the general trend in time was a reduction in doses given per 100 persons over time. Here are the notes showing that:
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Evidence from France suggests that COVID jabs, at least during Omicron, have a positive association with ICU admission rates (more jabs, more admissions; less jabs, less admissions). This calls into question the official narrative which says that COVID jabs cut severe disease.
This evidence during Omicron in France reveals that COVID jabs are associated with severe disease.
Reference
[ICU admission rates] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations
[jab rates over the prior 6 months] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
[15% of flu hospitalizations were ICU admissions in 2017/18 when the season peak weekly flu hospitalization had hit 102 weekly flu hospitalizations per million] — O’Halloran AC, Holstein R, Cummings C, et al. Rates of influenza-associated hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, and in-hospital death by race and ethnicity in the United States from 2009 to 2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(8):e2121880. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21880