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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by bananabiscuit on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:28PM (#28003801)
Yes I agree that math seems to work. I also agree that it is safe to assume that the COVID vaccine is somewhat unique in that it is being administered to women of childbearing age more than almost all other vaccines, which typically get administered to children.

So for a more like-to-like comparison, let’s look at flu vaccine numbers, which gets administered to about 40% of American adults every year (including women of childbearing age). That would mean over the 20 years before 2021, about 250 million flu shots were administered to women of childbearing age, which is at least 5x more than the ~50 million doses of COVID vaccines given to women of child bearing age (my upper estimate based on your quoted vaccination rate for women of childbearing age times 6 months times 2 doses). However, anywhere between 40%-48% of spontaneous abortions over the last 20 years (depending on your exact query) are from this year. Which to me implies that the COVID vaccines are many times more harmful for reproduction than the flu vaccines, and the harm multiplier only gets bigger considering that there are other vaccines that women of childbearing might get that aren’t just the flu vaccine that I’m not counting.

In any case, there is clearly some debate to be had here, that probably neither of us are really qualified to have. However it is worrying to me that attention doesn’t really get drawn to this and we don’t have many real experts weighing in on what this data means.

Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by mattzito on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:10AM (#28008166)
Or, when a woman gets a flu shot and then has a miscarriage, she doesn’t assume it was because of the flu shot, because she’s had a flu shot many times before. It seems like you’re being deliberately obtuse here.
Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by bananabiscuit on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:28AM (#28008359)
I think I’m being very transparent and open minded. I’ll admit your hypothesis about the mundaneness of flu shots is very possible. My only point is that that hypothesis or some other hypothesis needs to be confirmed by experts. Instead the only people we have commenting on this are right wing pundits that have their own axe to grind.