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> The covid vaccines have been a complete and utter disaster at every level. Sure, except for the 20+ million lives they saved: https://www.thelancet.com/jour

> The covid vaccines have been a complete and utter disaster at every level. Sure, except for the 20+ million lives they saved: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated-20-million-lives-1-year https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/covid-19... > The erosion of trust in the institutions that are supposed to protect consumers has alone done exponentially more damage than the virus it self. Source needed. Reading these comments, one would think nobody ever died of COVID. One would think we didn't have hospitals crammed to the gills with them.

anon291 4y ago
> Sure, except for the 20+ million lives they saved: There is no reason to expect 20 million people in the United States would have died if we had taken a european approach to vaccination approvals.
- frant-hartm 4y ago
  What was different in EU? Didn't we approve the same vaccines few weeks later?
  - anon291 4y ago
    In certain countries of the EU, boosters are not approved for younger people.
  - pvaldes 4y ago
    The president was not promoting snake oil, for example.
    - LilBytes 4y ago
      Kind way of describing bleach.
- ivraatiems 4y ago
  It's 20+ million worldwide, not in the US.