In this previous Substack, it was brought out that the additional hospitalizations expected from serious adverse events of special interest when taking COVID jabs outweighs the number of COVID hospitalizations prevented by them.
Here is a data visualization to help you see the harms and benefits together on the same scale, using a number line keeping track of the doses administered and the expected accumulation of benefit or harm:
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Reference
[8,147 fully-dosed kids are required to prevent a single COVID hospitalization] — Nordström P, Ballin M, Nordström A. Safety and effectiveness of monovalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and risk factors for hospitalisation caused by the omicron variant in 0.8 million adolescents: A nationwide cohort study in Sweden. PLoS Med. 2023 Feb 21;20(2):e1004127. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004127. PMID: 36802397; PMCID: PMC9990916. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990916/
[additional hospitalizations for Adverse Events of Special Interest for each 10,000 fully-dosed people aged 16 and up is +12.5 per 10,000 fully-dosed (1 added hospitalization per 800 doses)] — Fraiman J, Erviti J, Jones M, Greenland S, Whelan P, Kaplan RM, Doshi P. Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults. Vaccine. 2022 Sep 22;40(40):5798-5805. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.036. Epub 2022 Aug 31. PMID: 36055877; PMCID: PMC9428332. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428332/