So it is a grey “science” at best. And makes a ton of $ for the manufacturers. Interesting to note that the last head of the CDC, Nancy Cox, when she left, went to head up Merck’s vaccine division. Nice revolving door.
Wow, kind of sick.
Hey, we’re on the same side for once, LJ. :)
I had both a vaccinated and unvaccinated child get the chicken pox during a local outbreak (most of the kids that caught it were vaccinated, by the way). Purely anecdotal, but here is how it went: the unvaccinated child got cold symptoms for one day. Mild cold symptoms. Then the pox came out. The first or second night, he was very uncomfortable. After that, he was mostly low key and playing, though he had hundreds of pox everywhere. The vaccinated child only got about 10-15 pox, mostly on his trunk. But he was sick with fever and in bed for a full week, too sick to even get up for more than bathroom. I don’t know what that was worth, but interesting. Less pox but more sick.
We probably agree on more than we disagree.