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by beaned 1681 days ago
Likely not:

"Healthy boys may be more likely to be admitted to hospital with a rare side-effect of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine that causes inflammation of the heart than with Covid itself, US researchers claim."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

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Well if you have two groups, 100% of whom got the vaccine, versus 0.25% or whatever who got Covid, then sure that's not unlikely. But in a few years, 100% of those who don't get the vaccine will get covid. So this isn't exactly a rational basis for making decisions.
I don't believe the study is comparing absolute numbers, it's talking about risk on a per-individual level.
I didn't read the study, but the article talks about the number of cases during a four month period.
That's about how long the Pfizer-BioNTech reliably prevents infection in that cohort.