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Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by gus_massa on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:07PM (#24025724)
I think it doesn't cause death but from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Vaccine-induced_...

> Thus, in areas with poor sanitation and low vaccination coverage, the spontaneous reversal of the vaccine[OPV]-derived virus to a virulent form and its spreading in the environment can lead to unvaccinated people becoming infected. Clinical disease, including paralysis, caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is indistinguishable from that caused by wild polioviruses.

The numbers are in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_of_cVDPV_cases_sin...

> 2017: 96 cases

> 2018: 104 cases

> 2019: 364 cases

For even more details and numbers of cases by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication#2017

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Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by tialaramex on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:32PM (#24025854)
Right, and if OPV is what they're focused on, the thing is: Nobody is attempting a live attenuated coronavirus vaccine. So the OPV reversion situation is completely irrelevant to this exemption.

So that's why I asked which Polio vaccine.

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