Okay, people are officially freaking out about the J&J vaccine. Out of 7 million people who took it, 6 people experienced blood clots (1 person died). My mom just called me to warn me about this. Social media is losing it over this, the news is losing it.
Compare these numbers to people who contracted COVID. 9% of the US population got COVID, 0.1% of the population died from COVID.
Meanwhile, 0.0000857% of people who got the J&J vaccine experienced blood clots. 00.0000143% of people who got the J&J vaccine died from it.
Tell me again how numbers matter? Why are the same people who said COVID was overblown now incapable of counting numbers?
@alex We know _at least_ six people got blood clots. With Astra Zeneca it didn't take long to find many more examples. Equally, initial reports were about how fewer than expected numbers of blood clots were happening, which is just lol - clear sign of under reporting.
Anyway, one in a million is already more dangerous than covid to healthy children. So right there you have at least one demographic where the cost/benefit analysis doesn't make sense.
@alex For Astra Zeneca, this study found a 1 in 40,000 chance of death in their particular demographic: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104882
@pete Nobody should be forced to take it. Thankfully not the case in the US.
@alex If I were 70, I'd still take it. But at 36, I'm refusing to take any of these vaccines out of principal: forcing 100% of the population to take emergency use authorization vaccines with just a few months of testing data is absurd and dangerous even ignoring human rights and bodily autonomy. The medical community pushing for that aren't just evil, they're really stupid too.
Purely from a "don't put all your eggs in one basket" point of view 50% uptake makes much more sense.