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I’ve addressed data like this about 100 times. Because people (like you) don’t understand stats, the UK surveillance reports had to start including disclaimer passages to stop misconstruing their results.
But here’s a meta analysis relating to Omicron specifically.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.940956/full
The non-existent and negative VE against infection started showing up in real world data among people who were 6+ months out from their vaccination. The observational studies and test-negative case-control studies plugged into that meta analysis might be correct in the sense that the injections were effective in the short term, although the observational studies have the additional issue of groups being self-selected / not randomized (e.g. people who are very careful are more likely to be vaccinated, thus get infected less but not because of the vaccine). The studies alleging efficacy are all weak because of the short duration of data collection.
Despite ample financial means, CDC and FDA have refused to run properly controlled randomized clinical trials of sufficient size and duration and thus they've made it impossible to adequately evaluate the efficacy of Covid vaccines against all-cause mortality. There's no point reducing the odds of infection in the short term (thus slightly delaying the inevitable infection) if it means your patient develops blood clots or other health problems like myocarditis. I don't expect they ever will, because it won't give the result they want. It's likely that the overall harms far outweigh the benefits - certainly in young people.
We're not stupid, we're just bored of responding to frankly not-so-bright people like you. You're like one of those C students who gets a BA and suddenly thinks he's hot shit.