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What could be causing this statistical anamoly? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The vaccines are obviously safe, but can someone explain 2021 data from openvaers?

Or maybe we should ignore data in the interest of science.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Many more vaccines were administered in 2021. Dividing by total number of vaccines likely yields almost constant ratios. (This is just a guess as I did not look at the data...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is most likely the correct explanation. Compared to COVID, the number of people who take flu vaccination is insignificant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I have gotten the flu vacc the first time this year, because why not

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The difference here is not a matter of percentages but of orders of magnitude. How much is the increase in number of vaccines administered between 2021 and, say, 2018? A few thousand-fold?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

It doesn't.
Over 100 million vaccines were being administered in USA annually even before covid.