Jolly Platypus@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoRFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’www.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1623arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1613arrow-down1external-linkRFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’www.thedailybeast.comJolly Platypus@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square194fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareA1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-27 hours ago Measles estimated case-fatality rate: 1.3% Estimated US population: 346,715,067 Measles deaths if everyone in the US got measles: 4,507,295 Upper limit on estimated MMR vaccine caused anaphylaxis: 0.000066% Anaphylaxis case-fatality rate: 0.3% Estimated vaccine-caused fatality rate: 1.98 * 10^-7 % Estimate vaccine-caused fatalities avoided by not vaccinating US population: 0.69 Net increase in fatalities from switching to measles natural immunity for everyone in the US: 4,507,294 So it would only be better if he wants an extra 4.5 million Americans to die.
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 hour agoAre there any other complications from contracting measles that you haven’t factored in?
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 hours agothat’s only 1500 or so 9/11s… who cares, right?
So it would only be better if he wants an extra 4.5 million Americans to die.
Are there any other complications from contracting measles that you haven’t factored in?
that’s only 1500 or so 9/11s… who cares, right?