Harvard Study: "Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the US. The trend suggests a positive association such that countries with a higher, fully vaccinated population have higher COVID-19 cases.” (European Journal of Epidemiology 2021)

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Funny, the 2nd author is a teacher from a secondary school.

However, the study is done fairly poorly if we talk pure science. They need to collect a lot more variables such as level of preventative measures, rate of reporting/recording COVID cases, the % of ppl still semi-quarantining, etc. for each region. And then do a multivariable analysis to see if there are any other factors affecting the data.

For instance, a high level of vaccination rate could arguably cause the population or government to be less strict on preventative measures.

A low level of vaccinate rate in a county could mean the people just don't care, meaning they also won't care about going to the doctor for a mild/moderate cold and thus a COVID case would never be recorded.

Lastly, it's also possible that getting infected and developing innate immunity is a better at preventing a second infection compared to the vaccine. However, this would require you to get infected first whereas the point of a vaccine would be to prevent severe symptoms for the first infection.

Nevertheless, this study was weak.