One person has died of measles in the last 10 years. Is this a sign everyone who has not been vaccinated should be vaccinated against measles? Steve Kirsch does the math for us and it is amazing!
Measles vaccine math
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Measles vaccine math
Health experts are telling everyone to get the MMR shot. But simple math shows getting the measles vaccine is completely nonsensical. Who do you trust?
Executive summary
One person has died from measles in the last 10 years. Is this a sign that everyone who has not been infected or vaccinated for measles should get vaccinated?
According to all health authorities the answer is yes.
According to your friendly neighborhood misinformation superspreader (me), the answer is a big NO.
Why? Because you’re more likely to die or be seriously injured for life from these shots than benefit from them.
Here’s how the math works out today
Today, the math is obvious: even if the vaccine is 100% effective, we’d save 1 life every 10 years. But in 10 years, injecting 3M kids a year, even with a 1 in 1M death rate from the vaccine (which would be unbelievably safe), we’d have 30 deaths from the vaccine and 1 from the disease. So it’s a no …