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The main problem I have with all these papers is that they don't compare to the rates of symptoms from having had Covid. A lot of the idiocy these kinds of pap
by bsder 5y ago
The main problem I have with all these papers is that they don't compare to the rates of symptoms from having had Covid.
A lot of the idiocy these kinds of papers cause would be muted if you could point at the paper and say "Probably of X from vaccine--N%. Probability of X from Covid--N+M%."
Of course, if the probability of X is less than with Covid--that's important to know, as well. It defines which vaccines we should be administering.
- yunohn 5y ago> “Probably of X from vaccine--N%. Probability of X from Covid--N+M%." It’s always important to do the math. But you’ve missed the third, and most obvious, calculation. Probability of X from vaccine+Covid — 2N+M, or whatever.
- bsder 5y agoIf that were the case, it would be very unusual and we wouldn't have to flag it as researchers would be jumping all over that.