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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:22AM (#28277209)
Those could also be long term side effects of covid. A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time after they get the shot.

Your priors have to be absolutely outrageous if based on the currently available data you think the risks are even within an order of magnitude.

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by xdennis on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:18PM (#28279057)
> Those could also be long term side effects of covid.

Of course, but it's a lot worse when a cure causes issues. The point of medicine is to "first, do no harm".

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:43PM (#28279411)
It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright death
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by 34679 on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:53PM (#28279528)
3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage".

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:02PM (#28279664)
A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by 34679 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:22PM (#28280709)
Call Israel and tell them they got it wrong.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#28281480)
Ok, you're clearly a troll. After all the reporting from the last year and a half, no one could seriously believe that the entire population of San Fransisco catching covid would result in fewer than 200 hospital admissions
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by detaro on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:00PM (#28281866)
a) that's the <60y number only

b) Isn't that "per 100,000 inhabitants", not "per 100,000 who catch the disease"?

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