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Originally Posted by SupDock
The motivator for someone’s trip to the emergency department really isn’t relevant here. The majority of people who go to the emergency department are not admitted to the hospital, so emergency department visit rate and hospitalization rate or not anywhere near the same.
My point of illustration was that if a kid has vasovagal syncope after the shot, i.e. he got nervous and passed out, they would likely go to the emergency department and get discharged. This is a known side effect of any vaccine and it has nothing to do with a specific vaccine and it is not a serious adverse event. You could say the same thing for fevers, muscle aches, sore arms, rashes. People go to the emergency department for all these things after vaccines.
Again I’m not saying that there are no serious adverse events for the vaccine I’m just saying that you cannot Use emergency department visit rates as demonstration of serious adverse events.
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Oh, 100% with kids and parents... I don't know if kids are having the same side effects to the same extent, but if I had a 5 year old who felt half as shitty as I did after my second shot, I'd at least give it a second thought of something being wrong.
And with a lot of parents... pfft, many would react by heading to the ER (not to say it's exactly right or wrong). I could even see parents who are vaccinated go through the thought process of..... well, I know it's just side effects and I felt really shitty for a day, but this is my 5 year old, and just to be sure.......
And then of course, add those who go to the ER for everything.