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Summary: Article with data showing immunizations save more than they hurt.
Vaccines are one of the great benefits of biology has bestowed upon humanity, in that they have saved many lives and greatly reduced suffering.
As a result anti-vaxers kind of piss me off, but they are often not worth arguing with.
Nevertheless there is a lot of data supporting the use of vaccines which some may find argumentatively useful. Problems resulting from vaccination are much less than their benefits.
Here is an article from the NY Times that discusses a US program that compensates harmed by vaccines and a database of the cases they have dealt with.
It contains lots of numbers and several stories.
Many of recent compensations have involved poorly trained people incorrectly giving injections in the wrong place, resulting in shoulder injuries relating the act of injecting rather than the immunization itself.
Vaccines are one of the great benefits of biology has bestowed upon humanity, in that they have saved many lives and greatly reduced suffering.
As a result anti-vaxers kind of piss me off, but they are often not worth arguing with.
Nevertheless there is a lot of data supporting the use of vaccines which some may find argumentatively useful. Problems resulting from vaccination are much less than their benefits.
Here is an article from the NY Times that discusses a US program that compensates harmed by vaccines and a database of the cases they have dealt with.
It contains lots of numbers and several stories.
Over roughly the past dozen years in the United States, people have received about 126 million doses of vaccines against measles, a disease that once infected millions of American children and killed 400 to 500 people each year. During that period, 284 people filed claims of harm from those immunizations through a federal program created to compensate people injured by vaccines. Of those claims, about half were dismissed, while 143 were compensated.
Many of recent compensations have involved poorly trained people incorrectly giving injections in the wrong place, resulting in shoulder injuries relating the act of injecting rather than the immunization itself.