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Originally Posted by haertig
I was pretty sure death by car accident was significantly higher than one in a million (six blood clots and 6.8 million injections is what I read - so close to 1:1000000) So I looked up car deaths.
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And Johnson & Johnson requires half the trips of its competitors.
I think the best point is that delays, in vaccinating as close to everyone worldwide as is reasonably practical, can easily cost thousands of lives due to COVID.
EDITED: To take the driving thing more seriously, if Barbara and I didn't drive 110 miles each way twice for the Moderna, maybe we would have driven somewhere else. So there's that. But when you make vaccines more scarce, people will drive farther. Add it all up, and the extra driving risk, while impossible to calculate accurately, is real.