Flu Vaccine Deadlier than Covid19

May 30th, 2020

Via: Highwire:

2 Responses to “Flu Vaccine Deadlier than Covid19”

  1. soothing hex says:

    Links to the documents :
    https://www.fda.gov/media/119870/download
    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html#box

    When looking at the population over 65, one gets similar death rates for COVID-19 (according to the CDC) and this flu vaccine (according to its manufacturer), around 0.6 %.

    For persons 75 to 80 years of age in the US, the death rate from all causes is below 0.5 % : https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age-and-sex-in-the-us/

  2. soothing hex says:

    Erratum. The last stat is 5 %, not 0.5 %. In fact, even for people 65 to 69 years of age, it’s between 1 and 2%.

    This makes more sense when considering that the tests for this flu vaccine lasted 6 to 8 months, not a year.

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