That is a dramatic misrepresentation of that preprint. The number of deaths is small enough that it is hard to draw inferences from it, and that was not the endpoint of the study. Rather, the key finding is a vaccine effectiveness of 97% against severe disease.
A preprint that did address deaths[1] found a vaccine effectiveness of 98.7% against death. This is not consistent with your claim of "no evidence."
That preprint is not an RCT. The study I cited is an RCT. And the RCT shows no effect on deaths.
And yes, it does show a dramatic effect on infections and serious illness. This is great, and we should shout it from the rooftops! But a journalist writing that vaccines are the reason Covid mortality will drop 90% is projecting, not reporting facts.
A preprint that did address deaths[1] found a vaccine effectiveness of 98.7% against death. This is not consistent with your claim of "no evidence."
[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.21255873v...
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