Re:Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients a...
by mullingitover on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:46PM
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The text of the article is more sober, but the title alarms me because I know a lot of people will look no further, and will spread more vaccine paranoia. There's already plenty of that and the press has been chasing clicks.
If you have a group of 10 million people, a certain number of them are statistically likely to die within the next 24 hours, vaccine or not. So a lot of spurious correlations are going to happen with mass vaccination, and many of them are going to end up in headlines. It's already happening[1] and the press is going to be responsible for a non-zero number of deaths from people who don't understand that it's sheer coincidence.
If you have a group of 10 million people, a certain number of them are statistically likely to die within the next 24 hours, vaccine or not. So a lot of spurious correlations are going to happen with mass vaccination, and many of them are going to end up in headlines. It's already happening[1] and the press is going to be responsible for a non-zero number of deaths from people who don't understand that it's sheer coincidence.
[1] https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/pfizer-cdc-probing-death-of-fl...