Is it true that in Argentina 75,000 instilled by “satellite V” were hospitalized with complications after vaccination?

Information appeared in the media that 75,000 Argentines got into hospitals due to complications after vaccination by the Russian drug Sputnik V. We decided to check if this information corresponds to reality.

About 75,000 hospitalized with severe complications after vaccination reported In an interview with the magazine "Expert" Pavel Vorobyov, Doctor of Medical Sciences and Professor. He claimed that "he read the report of the Argentines for vaccinations" Satellite ". 75,000 vaccinated "satellite" required hospitalization. They have fever, headaches, muscles. And they are expressed, since hospitalization is required. ” His words reposting Maria Shukshina, and after her and Different channels in Telegram. 

Russian media presented data from the report differently. RBC wrotethat "when using" satellite V "side effects recorded in 0.36% of cases. Hospitalization was required in 0.00066% of cases. " TASS I went out With the heading “in Argentina, after vaccination,“ satellite V ”was required in 0,0007% of cases,” and then clarified that “by July 31, 11,368,961 dose of the drug was introduced in the country. The frequency of hospitalizations after vaccination by the Russian drug for the coronavirus "satellite V" in Argentina is 0.66 cases per 100,000 vaccinated. " BBC reportedthat “for seven months after the start of mass vaccination, the national healthcare system was registered 50,463 reports on side effects (156.8 cases per 100,000). Of these, 1.99% (1004 cases) were considered severe side effects, that is, those who required hospitalization. ” At first glance in the media confusion. In order to finally figure it out, you need to contact the original file report. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Health published it only in Spanish. On the first page there is data on the number of entered doses of the “satellite”, the data coincides with the TASS.

Further, the Ministry of Health of Argentina gives information about the side effects in general - 50,463 - and on separate vaccines. The "satellite" caused 41,545 unwanted reactions, this really is 0.36% of the total number of doses. True, here, the report is most likely a technical error associated with rounding of large numbers. If the “satellite” has 41,545 unwanted reactions, Sinopharm has 2384, Astrazeneca has 2999, then the total number of unwanted reactions can not be 50,463. It will be 46,928. In the future, we will calculate from this figure.

Indicators regarding hospitalizations in RBC (0.00066%) and TASS (0.0007%) are the same amount rounded to a different number of signs after aim. None of these figures in this form in the report are given. At the same time, there is a figure used by the BBC - the share and the number of cases required by hospitalization after vaccination: 1.99% of all unwanted phenomena, or 1004 cases, if counted from 50,463, and 934 cases, if it is counted from 46,928. True, the BBC does not give important clarification here - only 0.3% of all adverse reactions were regarded as related to those related to vaccination. Thus, the amount of hospitalization required and at the same time associated with vaccination of manifestations is 0.3% of the amount of three vaccines (46 928), or 140 cases. These 140 include undesirable reactions at once from three vaccines: "satellite", Sinopharm and Astrazeneca.

In order to find out the number of hospitalizations related precisely with the “satellite”, we turn to the table below. The report also has data that 0.66 heavy reaction occurred per 100,000 injected doses of the “satellite”. Accordingly, the proportion will look as follows:

100,000 - 0.66

11 368 961 - x

x = 100,000 / 0.66 * 11 368 961 = 75.035

We calculate the number of hospitalizations for two other vaccines:

100,000 - 0.41

11 145 461 - x

x = 45.696 (Astrazeneca)

100,000 - 0.16

9 673 401 - x

x = 15.477 (sinopharm)

100,000 - 0.4

232 187 823 (11 145 461 + 9 673 401 + 11 368 961) - x

x = 136.208 (general for three vaccines)

The indicated 75 cases of hospitalizations associated with the vaccination of the “satellite” really account for 0.0007% or 0.00066% of the total number of doses entered (11,368,961).

11 368 961 - 100%

75 - x

x = 0.000659%, which is rounded to 0.00066%or 0.0007%.

Therefore, TASS and RBC are correct in their calculations. And Pavel Vorobyov overestimated the real figure of hospitalizations after vaccination a thousand times!

It should be noted that Pavel Vorobyov has been seen more than once us And ours colleagues in the spread of false information. However, not only Pavel Vorobyov misled the readers. The inaccuracy and editors of the BBC, saying that “1004 cases were considered severe side effects, that is, those who required hospitalization”, without clarifying that not all these cases were eventually related to vaccination, but only 136 (according to other calculations - 140). That is, the Air Force connected seven times more cases of hospitalization with vaccination than in fact. It is not possible to figure out why, with different methods for calculating the total number of hospitalizations after vaccination according to the report of the Ministry of Health of Argentina, different numbers (136 and 140 cases) are obtained, and the methods of facts were not possible. Most likely, the report has a technical error, possibly associated with incorrect data from data.

Thus, Pavel Vorobyov (and Maria Shukshina after him) was not the first time to spread misinformation regarding vaccination, overstating the number of hospitalizations a thousand times.

Not true

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