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I'm guessing from your tone that your grandmother wasn't crippled by poliovirus years before the vaccine. mine was. to your probable point, it's a disservice
by jjtheblunt 3y ago
I'm guessing from your tone that your grandmother wasn't crippled by poliovirus years before the vaccine. mine was.
to your probable point, it's a disservice that marketing of vaccine boosters has clearly made vaccines seem tied to corporate profiteering, but there DO exist useful vaccines.
- fwungy 3y agoThe CDC Red Book used to list the chances of a permanent or fatal response to polio as being < 0.5%. They took that out a while ago when people started citing it. Oftentimes you find that a bad outcome to an illness, especially when rare, is associated with an extenuating circumstance. Covid, for example, isn't all that dangerous to young people with healthy BMIs. OTOH it is very dangerous to the elderly with multiple comorbidities, i.e. people who are in danger under any condition and need careful care. Medicines and vaccines can be wonderful and life saving, but speaking as someone who has professionally reviewed trial data, they needed to be treated with great care. The potential for unintended consequences is always high with powerful new medications. Techno philia and corporate greed can often get in the way of good science.