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Maybe We’re Asking Vaccine Skeptics the Wrong Question - Slate

Maybe We’re Asking Vaccine Skeptics the Wrong Question - Slate

Maybe We’re Asking Vaccine Skeptics the Wrong Question - Slate
Jun 14, 2021 1 min, 17 secs

If you’re one of the millions of people who have already chosen to get one of the federally approved vaccines, you don’t need to be persuaded that it’s the smart decision.

infections, and that share is doubling every two weeks—people who don’t take one of the approved vaccines will get the virus.

The worst known side effect, a blood-clotting syndrome, occurred in 28 of the 8.7 million people who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

In other words, vaccinated people, like unvaccinated people, die of other causes, such as heart attacks or strokes—but they don’t die from getting the vaccine.

Instead, the death rate among vaccinated people is lower, because they’re protected from a deadly virus.

Even if you attributed every reported death of a vaccinated person to the vaccines, the fatality rate would be 0.0017 percent.

fatality rate from COVID-19, calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of known infections, is 1.8 percent.

fatality rate from COVID-19 is probably much lower than 1.8 percent, because many mild infections go unreported.

But the fatality rate from the vaccines is also much lower than 0.0017 percent, because among the 300 million doses administered so far in the United States, only three deaths have been persuasively connected to a vaccine.

In that case, here’s the scorecard among the four vaccines currently circulating in the United States: three known deaths from Johnson & Johnson, zero from Pfizer, zero from Moderna, and about 600,000 from COVID-19.

The approved vaccines are also better than COVID-19 at immunizing you against further coronavirus infection.

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