09-21-2021, 09:38 AM
COVID and Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting: How VAERS veers off course (linkedin.com)
"To sum up, I am a vaccine proponent for COVID and in general because of epidemiology, not ideology. I favor those efforts that reliably confer decisive net benefit to public health. I do not choose based on zero risk, because no such intervention exists. There is some, non-zero risk, in every potential action, and every potential inaction, too. The best we can do is…the best we can do.
VAERS is an important and powerful tool; so, too, is a freight train. With the wrong hands on the wheel, whatever the good intentions, either can veer off the tracks. The result, of course, is a train wreck.
My advice to you is choose your train wisely. And when you hear the screeching wheels of that veer, get out of the way."
"To sum up, I am a vaccine proponent for COVID and in general because of epidemiology, not ideology. I favor those efforts that reliably confer decisive net benefit to public health. I do not choose based on zero risk, because no such intervention exists. There is some, non-zero risk, in every potential action, and every potential inaction, too. The best we can do is…the best we can do.
VAERS is an important and powerful tool; so, too, is a freight train. With the wrong hands on the wheel, whatever the good intentions, either can veer off the tracks. The result, of course, is a train wreck.
My advice to you is choose your train wisely. And when you hear the screeching wheels of that veer, get out of the way."