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Just to adjust your calculations a bit since side effects aren't all equal, the ranges are likely much higher than you mentioned. Trivial side effects (small t
by huxley 16y ago
Just to adjust your calculations a bit since side effects aren't all equal, the ranges are likely much higher than you mentioned.
Trivial side effects (small temporary rash) are probably in the 1-in-100 range. Moderate non-life-threatening are probably in the 1-in-3000 range.
Dangerous or life-threatening side effects are in the one in a million+ range.
- kragen 16y agoThis varies a lot by vaccine. The typhoid-fever vaccine I took in 2003 has "trivial side effects" in the 90-in-100 range, I think --- namely, you feel sick for a few days.
- huxley 16y agoYou're absolutely right, I should have been more specific by saying that in the case of the MMR vaccine, trivial side effects are in that lower range, but --as you've pointed out-- that isn't true in all vaccines.