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by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago
> given how low the base rate is, the reduction in number of procedures (and the resulting negative impacts on the women) would be incredibly low

Correct. These data are more a preview of what we can expect to see as the vaccinated cohort (in countries that aren’t pro-disease) advances in age.
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toomuchtodo 2 hours ago
Indeed, Australia will be one of the first countries to eliminate cervical cancer (by 2035) due to their HPV vaccine vaccination uptake rates.

Two decades to get here, one to go.

https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-rebecca-white-mp...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13036706/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009829972...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6w15vgp7lo

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