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There were probably hundreds of thousands saved in even in what at the time were considered very low risk demos. It may be over 1 million (if you mutliply infec
by mattmaroon 2y ago
There were probably hundreds of thousands saved in even in what at the time were considered very low risk demos. It may be over 1 million (if you mutliply infection fatality rate times number of people in the 0-49 age demo, you get just over a million). And, perhaps more relevant, the vaccine probably prevented a numer of long covid cases that is a multiple of that and many times higher than the reaction this article is writing about.
It was in no way reckless. All interventions have risk. If a vacccine saves a life/prevents long term illness for 10x as many people as it hurts, it's a highly positive intervention, and the numbers for these were probably much better than 10x.