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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To PP, how typical, immediately spurting out insults and launching an assault on those of us who dare to question. Vaccines are not without risk. [b]Risks can be reduced. That's a fact.[/b] I'm sorry if you've made bad choices in your life and are as a result resentful.[/quote]

infinitesimal risks... please show me your "facts."  Again there is a mountain of research that shows you are wrong.  I didn't make bad choices; I got my kids vaccinated.[/quote]

If the risks are so minimal, then why does this exist:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

Why have millions of dollars been paid to families with vaccine injured kids? Please, there is NOTHING wrong with having a dialogue to improve vaccine safety. [/quote]

There are risks, but they are minimal. Let's look at the statistics from HRSA (http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vicpmonthlyoctober15.pdf), since you seem okay with that as a resource. From 2006 to 2014, 2.5 billion doses of vaccines covered by the fund were administered, which gave rise to 3,255 claims, 2,012 of which were paid. For the sake of argument, let's leave aside that you don't actually have to prove that the condition/injury was the result of the vaccine and assume they all were). That means that approximately 0.00013% of vaccinations administered led to claims of vaccine-related injury, and only 0.00008% of vaccinations resulted in claim that was sufficiently plausible to be compensated. I hope we can agree that those are extremely low odds of injury.

Let's dig into it further and look at, for instance, polio. Between 2006 and 2014, over 175 million doses of the polio vaccine, either alone or combined with other vaccines, were administered in the United States. During that same period, 96 claims of potential vaccine-related injury (fatal and non-fatal, compensated and dismissed/uncompensated) were filed, an average of 10.6 per year. By contrast, let's look at the incidence of polio in 1951-1954, before the polio vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 1955. During those years, on average 16,316 cases of paralytic polio were reported, and an average of 1,879 people died every year from polio (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm). Keep further in mind that the U.S. population has nearly doubled since the early 1950s, and it makes the comparison even more extreme. Do you really want to go back to that? Do you really want to see 3,600 people (stat adjusted for current U.S. population) die of polio every year to avoid 10.6 allegations of fatal or non-fatal vaccine injury (many of which are found to have no validity)?[/quote]

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