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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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Do You Know the Risk Tolerance for Pediatrics?

In two years, COVID has killed at least a thousand kids, younger kids in the younger age groups. About 500 a year, as opposed to about 6,000 a year from measles. And I was thinking, I don't know the risk tolerance for pediatrics. If that were adult medicine, we would go, oh, that's more than a tenth the risk. But in pediatrics, maybe that, you know, death as an outcome is obviously a much bigger deal in terms of years of life lost.

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