It's a very small number that die. But if you're the parent of the unfortunate child, it's 100%. The odds are better than any lottery that you'll 'win'. And the numbers are fudged to make the possibility seem remote, I believe. The medical and governmental health orgs, and pharmaceutical interests will work hard to prove that the inoculation was in no way responsible for the dead or damaged kid. Parents often know better. A lot of them. Including me. And we all have the same story to tell: "they said it wasn't...could not have been the shot". It happens a lot. A lot more often than you think.
I'm reminded of the miracle of Ritalin.
"If it doesn't do any good...it'll do no harm."
Not what any PDR has to say about it.
Yes. Of course the death of any child from an inoculation is a tremendous tragedy. The death of a child from measles is tragic as well. The federal insurance pays for about 75 deaths per year. That is .0023% of the kids vaccinated in the US in a year. Even if the true rate of deaths is several times higher it is less than what a disease outbreak in a non-vaccinated population would cause. Measles alone still kills 250,000 kids around the world every year.