September 2021 - European Journal of Epidemiology: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
Another example of a comprehensive study getting the silent treatment because it doesn't follow the narrative.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7
Highlights from the study:
County Level
Of the top 5 [UNITED STATES] counties that have the highest percentage of population fully vaccinated (99.9–84.3%), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies 4 of them as “High” Transmission counties. Chattahoochee (Georgia), McKinley (New Mexico), and Arecibo (Puerto Rico) counties have above 90% of their population fully vaccinated with all three being classified as “High” transmission. Conversely, of the 57 counties that have been classified as “low” transmission counties by the CDC, 26.3% (15) have percentage of population fully vaccinated below 20%.
Country Level
[…] the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.
[...] a report released from the Ministry of Health in Israel, the effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against preventing COVID-19 infection was reported to be 39% [6], substantially lower than the trial efficacy of 96% [7]
Confirm the data yourself.
Here’s the CDC’s COVID data tracker. Remember that the current information may differ because the study was done at an earlier time. However checking the county level data against the study, you can see that the study is accurate.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
Chattahoochee County, Georgia / 24 October 2021
McKinley (New Mexico) / 24 October 2021
Arecibo Muno, Puerto Rico / 24 October 2021
Note that they changed the transmission to moderate from high since the time of the study.