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by kazinator 772 days ago
How do you convert that to a figure estimating how many more people are alive today than would otherwise have been? (I mean, including ones who would not have been born?)
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It also doesn't control for people who would not have died had vaccines not been a thing. What if Jim Jones had died of tuberculosis before creating Jonestown? So many lives extinguished because he was vaccinated.