I refound your blog and I remember this list of yo...

2009-11-28T01:00:22.628-08:00

I refound your blog and I remember this list of your comparison of vaccines and seatbelts from MDC, back when you were a member. I liked it then, and I like it now.

I agree that the individual risk benefit assessment will look different for different people and different families.

However, there is precious little information on the risk of the vaccine, not because it is so safe, but because it has not been studied.
And there is an overemphasis on the risks of the disease.

Even though pregnant women are at a higher risk for death and hospitalization with swine flu, that does not mean every pregnant women is. There are other factors that need to be considered, such as coexisitng health concerns, smoking (active or passive), diet, vit D levels, to name a few. And yet those issues are not reported. Only whether the woman was pregnant or not. There is also no data on the efficacy of flu vaccines in pregnant women, making the risk benefit analysis hard for this group.

And with the lack of data on the long term safety of vaccination for babies, children and adults, the risk benefit analysis is hard for everyone to do.

I do not think there is a 'right' decision. Some people like to look at the available information and make a decision based on that. Others like to look at what information is not there and make a decision looking at what is known *and* the holes in the knowledge.

Anyway, I am happy to have found your blog again, and to catch up with what you are doing.

Interesting post. It really is a poor analogy IMO....

2009-11-20T21:10:20.356-08:00

Interesting post. It really is a poor analogy IMO. I think the swine flu vaccine (and any vaccine) should be looked at in terms of the risks of getting it vs. not getting it and I don't think those risks are the same for the entire population all of the time.

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I refound your blog and I remember this list of yo...

Interesting post. It really is a poor analogy IMO....