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Infant and youth mortality were really high until the 20th century[1] Sometimes they weren't even named[2] or the deaths recorded[3]. [1] https://ourworldinda
by Brybry 4y ago
Infant and youth mortality were really high until the 20th century[1]
Sometimes they weren't even named[2] or the deaths recorded[3].
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/Mortality-rates-of-children-over-last-two-millennia.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/Mortality-rates-o...
[2] https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=jpps https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2173612 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2173612
- retrac 4y agoYes, but that doesn't explain the steady increase in adult and older child polio paralysis seen in the first half of the 20th century. Cases peaked as the vaccine was introduced.
- Pyramus 4y agoSorry I don't know much about polio and don't fully understand the argument - how does it affect the overall risk-benefit ratio of Polio vaccination? Any vaccine will have side effects negatively for that matter, how is Polio different in that regard?
- retrac 4y agoI would think it strengthens the argument for vaccination. Adults and older children are at great risk of serious illness due to lack of childhood immunity. If none of us had polio vaccines, it would probably behave today much as it did in the mid-20th century USA, with periodic waves of outbreak that would leave dozens or hundreds dead and tens of thousands disabled.