Between 1952 - 1962 the death rate from measles was 0.017%. Additionally the rate of permanent injury from measles was 0.03%. I’m not trying to take anything away from the people who died or were injured, but in the scheme of things, that’s a pretty low rate for people to get in a panic over.
Since 1989 there have been 57 deaths and 950ish injuries from the MMR vaccine reported to the VAERS. Of those, about 1/3 were found to have enough evidence to be compensated for the death/injury. I have not been able to find any credible data on how that 1/3 splits between deaths and injuries. This is just MMR; all other vaccines have the same info available for your look up at the CDC and/or HHS websites. But clearly there is some, yet very rare, risk to the vaccines.
I am neither anti nor pro-vax. I personally don’t care if someone wants to or doesn’t want to vaccinate their kids; it’s a personal choice. I do have a real problem with both sides calling the other side “stupid”, as I think there are valid reasons to and not to vaccinate. I do have a real problem with people who want force vaccinations. You cannot force someone to take a medical risk, and there is clearly a risk to some although very small, to minimize a risk for someone else.
Oh yes, the vaccine was introduced in 1963. So 1952 - 1962 was the 10 years prior to there being a vaccine.
The birth rate was about 4,000,000 a year during the 1952 to 1962 time period.
lets take it that the at risk population was only 10 X 4000000 or 40,000,000. At .017% that would be 6,800 dead during that period. The period between 1989 and now is 26 years, or 2.6 times the 10 years from 1952 to 1962. 2.6 X 6,800 gives you 17,680 dead, and this would be a very low number.
1000 or so dead or injured by the vax that saved at least 17,000.