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Turning to your linked article, you may have noticed that health officials had identified 900 people who developed narcolepsy out of 31 million to receive the vaccine - a pretty low ratio that jibes with the explicitly mentioned study finding that 1 person out of every 55,000 given the vaccine developed narcolepsy.
A risk factor of 1 out of 55,000 is acceptably safe.
You might think it's an acceptable risk. The people who actually gave the vaccine didn't. The British Government didn't; they pulled the vaccine. But maybe that's just them reacting to public pressure. Let's ask one of the people actually responsible for its distribution. Here's Dr. Goran Stiernstedt, a Swedish public health official and one of the people responsible for coordinating the vaccine campaign in his country. Does he think that the risk was worth it?
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"The big question is was it worth it? And retrospectively I have to say it was not."
...While estimates vary, Stiernstedt says Sweden's mass vaccination saved between 30 and 60 people from swine flu death. Yet since the pandemic ended, more than 200 cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Sweden...
""This is a medical tragedy," he said. "Hundreds of young people have had their lives almost destroyed."
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