Actually, that graph only tracks the advances in medical care over the decades. If you want to show a graph that means something, show a graph of infection rates. That's the true measurement of a vaccines efficacy.
Actually, that graph only tracks the advances in medical care over the decades. If you want to show a graph that means something, show a graph of infection rates. That's the true measurement of a vaccines efficacy.
Thanks I had no idea death rates and disease incidence were distinct data points.
That’s a great chart. It would be more interesting if it, too, went back to 1900 on the X axis. I’d appreciate seeing one of those, for comparison.
Thank you. I was about to post that graph myself.
MD logic:
When I was in the Army I got a shot of penicillin. Anaphylaxis followed forthwith. Medic saves me with epi injector. Therefore by anecdote penicillin bad, epi good.
No that is not medical logic; that is your logic and a poor example.
My dad was given penicillin while serving in the South Pacific during WWII. It nearly killed him as he was allergic but didn’t know it at the time.
In 1992 my dad contracted bacterial meningitis and was deathly ill. The doctors wanted to give him penicillin but knew it would be risky. However without it my dad would die. An immunologist was called in from another major medical center to consult. He performed some skin patch tests and determined that my father’s allergy to penicillin had decreased, as allergies sometime do. It was still risky but not as risky as letting the infection to continue to rage. My father was given penicillin and he lived and fully recovered.