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Buddy, this is human medicine, you don't get the luxury of "hard numbers" as if there was an SQL table in the sky you could just query. There is the CDC's VAER
by alevskaya 5y ago
Buddy, this is human medicine, you don't get the luxury of "hard numbers" as if there was an SQL table in the sky you could just query. There is the CDC's VAERS reporting system, but it doesn't define reality:
When you administer a vaccine to hundreds of millions of people, you will statistically expect some numbers of deaths to occur shortly after administration just by chance. Each such case then requires careful investigation to determine if there was a particular immune-linked syndrome that could be explained by a side-effect of vaccination.
In fact, most deaths argued to be due to the vaccines are frail, elderly patients (80+) in long term care facilities. The most concerning side-effect of the RNA vaccines are extremely rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis seen in young people which are est. ~12 cases per million - we're talking ~500 total reports (not deaths) in the US. Contrast this with the 15,000 child hospitalizations and ~300 child deaths due to covid.