Bufferunderflow

And? Vaccinations do not work 100% of the time, and nobody has ever tried to claim otherwise.

PrivateJoker

Good luck getting a company like Merck to publish their true effectiveness numbers for their MMR vaccine. They got sued by two whistleblowers a few years ago after they discovered they were making numbers up

Also, good luck trying to inform the hivemind that the MMR vaccine (for example) could have an effectiveness as low as 50%. They can't have that, because then they couldn't just blame the dreaded 'anti-vaxxers' for outbreaks

Canalize

Yep, Was waiting for someone to come to that conclusion. Oh because of less than .05% of data its a causative factor. HORSESHIT. 16 out of 21, Give me a break.

PersonMcName

The disease then spread in several settings, resulting in over 3,000 individuals being exposed. Although only 21 cases were reported, it was the largest outbreak of measles in the area for over 20 years.

And out of this, only 5 vaccinated people contracted it. That's actually not that bad of a failure rate considering that over 3000 people were exposed. Also, it's around 23%.

PrivateJoker

25% of the people that contracted it were vaccinated. Pretty good efficacy! Glad all of these unvaccinated people are being skewered when the vaccine doesn't work x% of the time (thought to be upwards of 50% based on whistleblowers lawsuit)

PersonMcName

25% of the people that contracted it were vaccinated

Out of the cases that contracted it, it was 23.8% who were unvaccinated. However, when we account for the over 3000 people exposed , the failure rate drops to around .00167% of cases.

PrivateJoker

That's bad math...how many of those 3000 were unvaccinated? It says right in the article that 50% of that somali community's children are now unvaccinated (as of 2010).

PersonMcName

Fair enough, let's revise our estimate. 1500 people exposed were vaccinated, which gives us a .00333% failure rate.

PrivateJoker

which means 1500 weren't vaccinated and only 16 got it