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Is Dr. Drew Anti-Vaccine? Dr. Dan Wilson (Debunk The Funk) on Pseudoscience & Misinfo – Ask Dr. Drew – Episode 155

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Pediatrics - Is That a Good Comparison?

You could make a similar argument for polio or for measles that those diseases have a very small rate of severe outcomes, including death. For polio, out of all the infections that happen, it was really rare for someone to experience a paralytic case. When you have a virus sweep through a population of millions and millions of people, you're going to get a lot of those rare outcomes. That's why we vaccinated against polio. That'sWhy we vaccinated against measles because even though the risk is relatively small compared to elderly people who elderly people have higher risk than most infectious diseases,. It's one percent. Yeah, it's not one in a million. That's one in a hundred. And

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