Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Hospitalizations
And now the rest of the story:
When not many people (comparatively) are hospitalized from the disease in the first place, any reduction in the number of hospitalizations will seem like a huge percentage!
But the statistics sound good, don't they? :-P
(Nevermind that the chicken pox vaccine is manufactured with aborted fetal cells, which is the main reason we don't get it for our children.)
The newly released report is one of the first to evaluate the impact of the vaccination program in medical terms. CDC researchers reported that hospitalizations due to chickenpox declined by a whopping 88 percent and chickenpox-related visits to physicians declined by 59 percent in the eight years following approval of the vaccine.
And now the rest of the story:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that before the vaccine, there were 4 million cases of chicken pox nationwide each year, resulting in 11,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths. (Source)So just what percentage of people with the chicken pox were hospitalized every year? .275% And what about the percentage of deaths from chicken pox? A frightening .0025%
When not many people (comparatively) are hospitalized from the disease in the first place, any reduction in the number of hospitalizations will seem like a huge percentage!
But the statistics sound good, don't they? :-P
(Nevermind that the chicken pox vaccine is manufactured with aborted fetal cells, which is the main reason we don't get it for our children.)
