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Eyal Shahar

Don’t hesitate: Get a Covid shot and prevent a traffic crash

Not long ago I thought I had discovered the worst misinterpretation of a study on Covid vaccines, but I have just encountered another…

6 min read4 days ago

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Don’t hesitate: Get a Covid shot and prevent a traffic crash

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Eyal Shahar

Misconceptions about the healthy vaccinee bias

Having posted numerous articles about the healthy vaccinee effect (bias), I sometimes encountered misconceptions, which I will address…

5 min readMay 3, 2024

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Misconceptions about the healthy vaccinee bias

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Eyal Shahar

The Covid Pandemic: Unconventional Analytical Essays (2020–2023)

It was an evening in mid-March 2020. Almost two years had passed since I retired from the University of Arizona, where I was a Professor of…

4 min readApr 20, 2024

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Eyal Shahar

A Lecture in an Epidemiology Course (Winter 2040)

Good morning,

9 min readJan 7, 2024

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A Lecture in an Epidemiology Course (Winter 2040)

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Eyal Shahar

On Morality and Moral Axioms

“If the governing body of a population performs a massacre (and promises more), and its armed forces hide in tunnels below urban areas, no…

6 min readDec 7, 2023

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On Morality and Moral Axioms

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Eyal Shahar

The last nail in the coffin of Covid boosters

“The true effectiveness of the first booster was short-lived, if meaningful at all. Peak protection was somewhere between mediocre and…

6 min readSep 13, 2023

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The last nail in the coffin of Covid boosters

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Eyal Shahar

The evidence is accumulating: the “high effectiveness” of the first booster was mostly bias

Abstract (or TL;DR)

12 min readSep 3, 2023

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The evidence is accumulating: the “high effectiveness” of the first booster was mostly bias

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Eyal Shahar

How do we remove the “healthy vaccinee” bias? Part 3

Unlike most of my writing, this text is highly technical.

4 min readSep 2, 2023

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How do we remove the “healthy vaccinee” bias? Part 3

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Eyal Shahar

How do we remove the “healthy vaccinee” bias? Part 2

I did not think there would be part 2 to my previous article on the topic, and so soon, but there is something fascinating about science…

4 min readAug 8, 2023

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Eyal Shahar

How do we remove the “healthy vaccinee” bias?

For reasons that are not relevant here, people who get vaccinated are healthier, on average, than people who don’t. Therefore, their risk…

10 min readAug 6, 2023

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How do we remove the “healthy vaccinee” bias?

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Eyal Shahar

Eyal Shahar

Professor Emeritus of Public Health (University of Arizona); MD (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); MPH, Epidemiology (University of Minnesota)

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