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Let’s see what Pfizer’s own report says, shall we? (Clown!)

Reposted from another thread:

So I did look at the numbers: the CDC reported on March 1st that about 28.3 million Americans got the Pfizer vax by 16 February. This does not include all the others worldwide who also got the Pfizer. 1,223 reported deaths (let’s assume they were all US and all a result of the vaccine for now) out of 28.3 million US vaccinated is a death rate of .0043% - not great, huh?

But let’s now consider the death rate from COVID for all of the US. Per Johns Hopkins data, it sits now at 238 deaths per 100,000 people. Not a lot, you say, but that works out to .238% - 55 times higher than for the people who might have died from the Pfizer shot itself. And if you have the bad luck to catch COVID, the US mortality rate is 1.6% - over 300 times the death rate of the Pfizer vaccine cited above.

That said, the total number vaccinated with Pfizer by 28 February and not just in the US was certainly much higher. I haven’t found much to give a clue (the Pfizer report itself withholds this number), but a decent guesstimate might be 35 to 45 million. So that mortality rate from the Pfizer “poison” drops even further.

So, sure there are concerns with the vaccine, and the longer term effects are still unknown. As for me, I am willing to risk a .0043% chance of dying from the vaccine than to risk a .238% chance of dying from COVID.

But what do I know? I’m just a “clown” and a “nimrod”. (Thanks for heeding the FR rules against personal attacks, FRiend)