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03 Oct 2022
The Oxford study cited by Alex Jones does not support the claim that vaccination increases infection risk by 44%.

So this is a dumb blog headline that Alex is reading that isn't accurate at all. Sure. The actual study that's behind this is titled, quote, Associations of BMI with COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake, Vaccine Effectiveness and Risk of Severe COVID-19 Outcomes After Vaccination in England, a Population-Based Cohort Study. If you understand the title, you'll probably realize that this study would never be able to be used to make the kind of claims Alex is reporting. It's just not something they're looking at. Lead Stories reached out to the study's co-author, and they explained that this interpretation of their data is irresponsible and incorrect. There's one data box in the study that's being used to argue that vaccines cause a 44% increased risk of infection, and if you only look at the numbers in isolation and create your own interpretation, you could maybe come away with that conclusion, but it's totally out of context and wrong.