That was roughly the numbers I came up with too, but, like you, I didn't really take the time to work it all out.
But yeah, just on a number of death toll, the vaccine is better than no vaccine.
When you factor in the other types of cancers, the fact that they have higher death tolls, and the fact that a far larger number of women don't die, but do have anything from a minor surgical procedure up to and including life-long damaging health problems, and also factor in the fact that not only are those 20 deaths "highly unlikely" to be linked to the vaccine, but that several of them were conclusively linked to other causes and NONE of them are even considered "possibly" linked to the vaccine, I think it's a no-brainer and it infuriates me that people are using scary anecdotal stories with falsehoods and lies to sway people away from a life-saving vaccine.
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Date: 8/22/09 05:28 am (UTC)From:But yeah, just on a number of death toll, the vaccine is better than no vaccine.
When you factor in the other types of cancers, the fact that they have higher death tolls, and the fact that a far larger number of women don't die, but do have anything from a minor surgical procedure up to and including life-long damaging health problems, and also factor in the fact that not only are those 20 deaths "highly unlikely" to be linked to the vaccine, but that several of them were conclusively linked to other causes and NONE of them are even considered "possibly" linked to the vaccine, I think it's a no-brainer and it infuriates me that people are using scary anecdotal stories with falsehoods and lies to sway people away from a life-saving vaccine.