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Originally Posted by petegz28
God damn I can't hate the media enough at times...
Headline: NYC reports 'significant' COVID-19 vaccine reaction in health care worker
First paragraph:A health care worker in New York City suffered what officials are calling a "serious adverse event" after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The worker, who was not identified, is stable after being treated for a significant allergic reaction.
Second paragraph: " With more than 30,000 COVID-19 vaccinations administered in New York City, we have received a single report of a serious adverse event in a health care worker," the New York City Health Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/nyc-r...th-care-worker
How can we scare people more??? |
I'm a big fan of the book
Factfulness for a variety of reasons, but one of the points he makes is that you should always be skeptical of what he calls "lonely numbers." Without context, we often have very little idea of how mundane or severe the situation might be.
In this case, I'd love to have an article that compares the incidence rate of allergic reactions to other common vaccines. That would be a much better way of understanding whether this is at all abnormal.
Regardless, as long as the reactions can be managed when they occur (which seems to be the case), I'm not too worried about it.