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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps
What I find telling is practically everything you read is some relative number. Booster lowers chance of death/hospitalization/symptoms whatever by 50%. However they don’t tell you the absolute number. Probably because saying it lowers your chance of X from say 1% to 0.5% doesn’t sound as sexy, however those are numbers that let you understand the actual risk. And it goes both ways… "People who have had COVID and get vaccinated have something like a 40% increase in adverse effects from the vaccination.” 40% increase from what? What is the baseline number here? Again it’s probably a tiny number.
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I did some digging on this whole "vaccine increases risk of myocarditis" angle. That 100% number spooked me a little. Here's what I found. In 2017 there were 1.8 million cases of myocarditis reported worldwide. 1.8M / 7.7B is a pretty small fraction. Increase it by 100% or 200% and it is still a very very small number.
Moral: a big percentage increase in nearly zero is still nearly zero.