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According to the article, 6.8 million people in the US have received the J&J shot. Without the J&J vaccine, those people (6.8 million others) would not be vacci
by stickfigure 6y ago
According to the article, 6.8 million people in the US have received the J&J shot. Without the J&J vaccine, those people (6.8 million others) would not be vaccinated due to lack of supply.
The US CDC website[1] currently says the 7-day death rate per 100k people is 1.4. Without the J&J vaccine, that's almost 100 additional people dying per week - and just in the US.
[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsper100klast7days https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsper100...
- endisneigh 6y agoIs your logic basically that as long as the vaccine kills fewer people than COVID all is well? Pausing briefly to investigate this seems prudent. If we had the same prudence with COVID overall we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.
- stickfigure 6y agoWe know with near-certainty that pausing to investigate will produce more death than not-pausing while investigating. It's really not complicated. Count up the bodies in Column A, count up the bodies in Column B, then pick one.