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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by el_benhameen on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:43PM (#38281377)
Unless you have the overall incidence of self-reported chest pain or that of those who didn’t get the vaccine in the same period, those aren’t particularly meaningful numbers.
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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by kiltedpanda on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:57PM (#38281566)
2000 people is a pretty good sample size. It is true though that I'm hazarding a guess that the background rate of chest pain in any given timeframe is slightly lower than ~5%.
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