I’m old enough to remember the ‘76 swine flu vaccine debacle.
I don’t think the eggheads who gave us that slept through bio class.
Though the nation wished they had.
Yes, 25 people died from a vaccine given out 45 years ago.
And smallpox killed 500,000,000 people in its last 100 years alone. Polio killed, paralyzed, and disfigured millions of children. Measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria...
If you want to talk about the balance of risk/reward with vaccines, by all means. That’s an easy one.
Yep. The Air Force gave me the Swine Flu.
December 1976 was remarkable for the lack of any influenza epidemic.
Sounds a little like 2020.