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What's the rate for the unvaccinated group? So a comparison can be made vs. the vaccinated one. The fact that they leave this out is a bit weird, sloppy journa
by moralestapia 4mo ago
What's the rate for the unvaccinated group? So a comparison can be made vs. the vaccinated one.
The fact that they leave this out is a bit weird, sloppy journalism I guess.
- apparent 4mo ago[flagged]
- SanjayMehta 4mo ago[flagged]
- WorkerBee28474 4mo agoLooking at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733696/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733696/ it seems like the base rate was 0.04 per 100,000. So ~70 female deaths per year in a population the size of the USA. That link suggests the mortality rate was reduced by a factor of 2-4, so vaccinating 2 million (?) girls per year saves 30-50 lives. Some back-of-the-napkin math puts the price tag per life saved in the 8 digit range.
- mikeyouse 4mo agoThe problem with armchair back of the napkin math is that you make elementary mistakes like comparing the cost of a vaccine that provides decades of protection to the mortality statistics from a single year.
- Taniwha 4mo agoThis is a vaccine that does contribute to herd immunity, if enough people get it then transmission goes to 0 and it dies out, even unvaccinated people wont get it, because of the vaccine. The article says "0 cases" in the entire population, in this case the people who get vaccinated are carrying the unvaccinated
- dennis_jeeves2 4mo ago[flagged]
- jrmg 4mo agoThis is a ridiculous statement. No one is developing a vaccine for something they don’t even know the rate of incidence of.
- dennis_jeeves2 4mo agoYou'd be surprised at things that are deemed necessary when money is to be made.