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"Vaccines Cause Adults" Brilliant Reminder from Skeptoid
It seems incredible to still have to say it, but vaccines save lives. The data could not possibly be any more stark, but nevertheless, the US (and the rest of the world in general) is seeing an ever-increasing level of vaccine denial. Claims that vaccines cause more harm than good are shouted through megaphones. US states are enacting anti-vaccine legislation with reckless abandon...
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched in 1974 to try and bring the benefits of vaccinations to populations all over the globe. A group of authors published an assessment of the program's success in The Lancet in May 2024. They found that during just those 50 years, vaccines saved an estimated 154 million lives.
...Because most vaccine-preventable deaths are of young children, cutting their lives short by an average of 66 years, those 154 million lives saved equate to 10.2 billion years of full health gained. If you are one who prefers to look at these things not in terms of the human cost but in the monetary cost, that's one full year of the entire planet's economic productivity...
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4981?
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched in 1974 to try and bring the benefits of vaccinations to populations all over the globe. A group of authors published an assessment of the program's success in The Lancet in May 2024. They found that during just those 50 years, vaccines saved an estimated 154 million lives.
...Because most vaccine-preventable deaths are of young children, cutting their lives short by an average of 66 years, those 154 million lives saved equate to 10.2 billion years of full health gained. If you are one who prefers to look at these things not in terms of the human cost but in the monetary cost, that's one full year of the entire planet's economic productivity...
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4981?
This is one of Mr Dunning's best pieces.
Being of the first generation to receive the polio vaccine I saw what the effects of that dread disease were with my own eyes.
Don't really want to go back to such frightening times—times when the first symptoms of a summer cold raised the specter of paralytic polio in the minds both parents and older children.