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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jonplackett on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:14AM (#26791131)
There's lots of other things to compare it to as well. It's a roughly 1 in a million chance of dying - which is called a Micromort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

We 'spend' about one micromort of risk per day of being alive. Or you can spend one walking for 6 hours, or driving 250 miles (or 6 miles on a motorbike)

I just made a website to show all the other stuff we do all the time without worrying with the same (extremely low) level of risk

https://whatoneinamillionmeans.com

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by graeme on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:17AM (#26791163)
Less, no? 1/million is the risk so far of clots, not of death.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jonplackett on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:19AM (#26791190)
There's about 1/250,000 risk of clots, but they are treatable.

In the UK there's been 19 people die after ~20 million vaccinations.

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by graeme on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:30AM (#26791288)
That’s assuming J and J has same incidence as AZ. J and J so far has had 6 clots for seven million doses.

Of course some more may show up in coming days from prior vaccinations.

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by rsynnott on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:05AM (#26791620)
One caution here; at least with AZ, apparent rate of clots varied dramatically by country, and rates generally went up once people knew what they were looking for. It's plausible that a lot of early ones were missed entirely or misattributed.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by mikem170 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#26796134)
That's 6 unusual/dangerous cerebral clots per 7 million doses, not all blood clots. There were 50% more clots of any types in the vaccine trials of 20k people [0] (15 blood clots in vaccinated group versus 10 in the placebo group).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/johnson-vaccine-blood-...

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jonplackett on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:34AM (#26791323)
Ah yes, that is true! This site is based on AZ, but you're right it might be a different story with J+J. I wonder if as well, they'll get better at spotting the blood clots and treating which could also be happening - but that's just conjecture / hopeful thinking at this point.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by hellohiyesokay on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:17AM (#26791169)
Your link only has IPv6 records but the www. subdomain has IPv4.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jonplackett on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:23AM (#26791221)
Hey. What will that mean exactly? DNS is through Cloudflare using their magical CNAME pointer. Can you access OK?
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jrockway on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:55PM (#26795286)
I see IPv4 A records. I am guessing what's happening is that when you look up the DNS over IPv6, it gives you AAAA records instead of A records. Or, it can depend on locality. Cloudflare is not a DNS provider that gives the same answer to everyone -- its goal is to direct traffic to the cache that's closest to the end user.

Edit: I looked into it more and I can get IPv6 and IPv4 DNS servers to serve me both A and AAAA records. The site is now down, however :)

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by jonplackett on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:37PM (#26797924)
Thanks for checking. Much appreciated.

Yeah I banked too much on Cloudflare... I've ramped up its dyno a bit now too. Hopefully that'll keep it up!

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by hellohiyesokay on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:15AM (#26820777)
At the time, the non-www subdomain only had IPv6 and I'm not running dual stack. They now look identical.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by hellohiyesokay on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:17AM (#26820799)
It meant that anyone not using IPv6 or a dual stack provider wouldn't be able to view the site through the non-www domain. However, they look identical now, so you're good.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by ravedave5 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:00AM (#26793092)
Ok I really need your stat on canoeing. "That’s much less risky than going canoeing "