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hi! and thank you for your work.

you say «i know of no reason that a Covid vaccine would reduce your chances of dying of something other than Covid, therefore the logical conclusion is that the full vaccinated are a generally healthier group than the unvaccinated.».

but i believe the lower mortality in the full vaxed is a result of the mortality increase between the 1st and 2nd dose, which serves as a kind of culling.

i've read it's called a 'dry tinder' effect.

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Mathew Crawford attributes the unusual health of the fully-vaccinated group to survivorship bias and the 'dry tinder' effect, as mentioned by another commenter. If vaccination weeds out susceptible individuals by the same types of mechanisms that Covid causes deaths wouldn't the doubly-vaccinated population tend to be more robust, at least initially?

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