70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their...
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Vaccines have side-effects. When a doctor recommends you get vaccinated it's because his expert opinion is that in your case the risks from not taking the vaccine outweigh the risks from taking it.
As for the anecdotes on this page, I cannot even begin to imagine what going through a stillbirth is like. But that doesn't make these anecdotes good evidence. The average stillbirth rate in the US is 1 in 115. Since pregnant women are most at risk from H1N1, doctor's recommend they get vaccinated. So if 100000 pregnant women got vaccinated and assuming the vaccine was 100% safe you'd expect about 870 stillbirths, because that's the amount that would have happened anyway. But some of these 870 are going to associate the stillbirth with the vaccine. (And why not? It happened around the same time!) However, that doesn't say anything at all about whether the vaccine had anything to do with it. To determine that, you have to do a proper study to see if the incidence rates are actually elevated. And guess what, scientists and doctors are doing just that. Any new vaccine is always under intense scrutiny and any legitimate side-effect that comes up immediately gets a lot of attention.
The point is, this sort of random anecdotal evidence is completely worthless. Nothing is entirely safe, you will always find *somebody* who has had an adverse effect from any medicine and you will always find a certain number of people who have had an adverse effect coincidentally at the same time after taking a vaccine. Again, only a controlled study can reveal what is really going on.
So what's the harm of telling a bunch of horror stories? Well how about somebody gets scared from these stories, doesn't take the vaccine, then dies of H1N1.
As for the anecdotes on this page, I cannot even begin to imagine what going through a stillbirth is like. But that doesn't make these anecdotes good evidence. The average stillbirth rate in the US is 1 in 115. Since pregnant women are most at risk from H1N1, doctor's recommend they get vaccinated. So if 100000 pregnant women got vaccinated and assuming the vaccine was 100% safe you'd expect about 870 stillbirths, because that's the amount that would have happened anyway. But some of these 870 are going to associate the stillbirth with the vaccine. (And why not? It happened around the same time!) However, that doesn't say anything at all about whether the vaccine had anything to do with it. To determine that, you have to do a proper study to see if the incidence rates are actually elevated. And guess what, scientists and doctors are doing just that. Any new vaccine is always under intense scrutiny and any legitimate side-effect that comes up immediately gets a lot of attention.
The point is, this sort of random anecdotal evidence is completely worthless. Nothing is entirely safe, you will always find *somebody* who has had an adverse effect from any medicine and you will always find a certain number of people who have had an adverse effect coincidentally at the same time after taking a vaccine. Again, only a controlled study can reveal what is really going on.
So what's the harm of telling a bunch of horror stories? Well how about somebody gets scared from these stories, doesn't take the vaccine, then dies of H1N1.
