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by bzb3 2253 days ago
>As a reminder, the vaccine Pandemrix, which was developed as a treatment for the swine flu, caused narcolepsy in over 1000 patients.

That number without a % is meaningless

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> That number without a % is meaningless

Unless you were one of the 1000.

It matters to the 28 million people who were vaccinated.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

> [...] found a 6.6-fold increased risk among children and youths, resulting in 3.6 additional cases of narcolepsy per 100,000 vaccinated subjects. [...]