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(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 15 2016, @02:44PM
The vaccination injury compensation fund is not only evidence but acknowledgement of significant harm coming from vaccines. Are injuries rare? Yes. Are they significant to the people and families they happen to? Extremely. As a collective species, are we better off with vaccinations or without? The science is clear: as a collective species, vaccinations are beneficial.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 15 2016, @03:22PM
Exactly this.
Given the choice, I will have (and have) my kid vaccinated. Most of the time it's safe and the benefits to everyone else out weighs the potential issues. That said, I can see how some people wouldn't want to risk it. We can't say there aren't ANY risks involved because we know there are some people (egg allergies and compromised immune systems come to mind) who can't get vaccinated. The idea is people who can, should, for the benefit of those people who can't.
I'm of the opinion though that that's a personal choice, you can't force someone to risk someone else's life, especially their own children. And that's why these debates always go south so quickly.
One side has science and probabilities on their side and they're not being asked to take that risk, or may not even be aware there's a risk at all, they just do it and nothing happened to them, so why shouldn't everyone else. The way others see it though is they're being asked/ordered by others to take that risk. It's very unsettling to know there's even a small chance you could be seriously putting your kid in any danger at all, even if the chances are really good it'll be beneficial overall. Which was my reasoning for having my kid vaccinated. Without the vaccines there's still a chance she could get sick, so in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation I chose public and personal safety with small risk over just personal safety, also with small risk.
But people need to stop butting in on parents, butting into other people in general, responsibilities. If you think it's ok to force people that disagree with you to do things they don't want to do, just remember you could be on the other side of that situation some day and you're creating the framework that will let people get away with it.
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 15 2016, @04:47PM
You have an odd definition of "significant."
How many petitions have been awarded compensation?
According to the CDC, from 2006 to 2014 over 2.5 billion doses of covered vaccines were distributed in
the U.S. For petitions filed in this time period, 3,389 petitions were adjudicated by the Court, and of
those 2,146 were compensated. This means for every 1 million doses of vaccine that were distributed, 1
individual was compensated.
reference [hrsa.gov]
(Score: 1) by Osamabobama on Tuesday March 15 2016, @07:48PM
...but the compensation, when awarded, averaged (medianed?) around $600k. There is a $0.75 fee for each vaccine to pay for the fund, which pays out about $0.54 on average, so it's solvent, at least.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 15 2016, @08:56PM
$600K compensation on average... that's significant to the people who receive it, and not everyone who is eligible is interested in fighting the fight to receive compensation.
Also, 1/million vaccines, is more like 1/100,000 people.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2016, @06:20PM
No, it isn't. It is an acknowledgement that we live in a litigious society where injury lawyers are regularly chasing after ambulances in hot pursuit of a big payola.