Ron Johnson: “The FDA used something called empirical Bayesian analysis.”

“So fda, CDC use something called proportional reporting ratio. So they're looking for disproportionate adverse events as a signal for a drug or for a vaccine. So remember that prr, that's what CDC used. The FDA used something called empirical Bayesian analysis. So two different analytical algorithms for looking at all this data. You know, these thousands of reports that come in. So now fast forward to the end of 2020, when they got the emergency use authorization for the vaccines.” (04:55–04:59)

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