By the Numbers: Vaccines Are Safe
The misinformation&#x2F;lies surrounding vaccine safety is nauseating.<p>&gt;Before the vaccine, measles infected more than 3 million Americans and killed more than 400 of them each year. One in four people who get measles are likely to be hospitalized and one or two in 1,000 are likely to die<p>Anyone here gots math.. 400&#x2F;3,000,000 is ~1&#x2F;10,000.  And note that this is the rate given 1950&#x27;s medical care - I can&#x27;t fathom the numbers would be like this today.<p>And the entire concept of proving vaccine safety by showing filing rates for the VICP are low is wrong.  Many people are not aware of the VICP or they are told that the reactions are not related to the vaccines - why would they file?<p>I&#x27;m not arguing that you shouldn&#x27;t vaccinate - but there needs to be more scientific and intellectual integrity in the process.  The risks are whitewashed &quot;Vaccines are safe&quot;.<p>Anyone interested in doing a little more research can look and play with the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) dataset at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yehosef&#x2F;vaers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yehosef&#x2F;vaers</a> or the grafana dashboard I built at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vizvax.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vizvax.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can do a simple adhoc search for DIED=Y to see some interesting results.  Remember that the only 1-10% of the events are reported (CDC numbers) so you can estimate the numbers to be 10-100 times greater.<p>feedback&#x2F;suggestions appreciated.