THE TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES: A BRIEF THREAD 
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1. Vaccines work. Most vaccines reduce your risk of the disease(s) in question by 80-99%
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2. Vaccines have risks. We have studied these risks AT LENGTH, I'm thousands of studies across tens of millions of people






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3. The diseases we vaccinate against are, by definition, serious There's a reason that we develop vaccines, and it's not because polio is super fun
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4. The risks of vaccines, on the other hand, are small After rigorous testing (including of course RCTs), most vaccines have serious adverse event rates of <0.00001% (1 in 1,000,000)
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5. Vaccines are money-SAVING. The CDC calculated that every vaccine given saves the health system $40 (I.e. $40 not spent on drugs, hospitals etc) This is because vaccine-preventable diseases are SERIOUS (see point 3)
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These are all well-established facts, easily researched. I've written about them all many times (if you want references, check out my blog)
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Also, while the very rare complications of vaccines such as febrile seizures can look scary, they are nothing compared to the very common, much deadlier issues like SSPE from measles
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Replying to @GidMK
Being preventable makes SSPE just that much more tragic
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