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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Dec 2020

      Fun fact: the death rate of the COVID-19 vaccine, based on information we have so far, is at least 1,000x lower than the death rate from COVID itself

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    2. Douglas Pollitt‏ @DouglasPollitt 20 Dec 2020
      Replying to @GidMK

      There's a death rate for the vaccine?

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Dec 2020
      Replying to @DouglasPollitt

      There may be deaths, but thus far I'm not aware of any. That means we can set a reasonably upper bound on the death rate, although it will probably be lower

      7:37 PM - 20 Dec 2020
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        2. Douglas Pollitt‏ @DouglasPollitt 20 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          How do you set an upper bound on the death rate when there have been no deaths so far? That's a genuine question from a guy who can probably handle the math. You're tossing a die and haven't landed a 7 yet. How can you estimate how many sides there are on the die?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Dec 2020
          Replying to @DouglasPollitt

          Well, let's look at one of the trials. There were 22,000 people assigned the vaccine, and no deaths attributable to it. This could lead to a death rate of ~1/22,000 that we missed in the trial, but we can exclude slightly higher rates of ~1/5,000 or above

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        1. Damjan Vlastelica  💉 💉 😷 📉 📊 🎨 🖌️ 🇦🇺 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 🌍 🚴‏ @DamjanVlastelic 20 Dec 2020
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          Damjan Vlastelica  💉 💉 😷 📉 📊 🎨 🖌️ 🇦🇺 🇷🇸 🇪🇺 🌍 🚴 Retweeted Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

          Is that a death rate with the vaccine or of the vaccine lol. Though Jeremy makes a good point here https://twitter.com/jeremyfaust/status/1340176831698399232?s=09 … covid denialist for sure gonna start conflating the 'with' vaccine deaths failing to realise how it's inconsistent with other arguements they have made

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          Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)Verified account @jeremyfaust
          Omg 225k Americans are getting coronavirus daily. That’s 750k per 3 days (0.23% of US). So far 128,000 Americans got vaccinated. But 0.23% of 128k=302 people!🤢 Means 302 people will HAPPEN to get coronavirus within 3 days of vaccine. We MUST teach this/get ahead of it!
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