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To: h_ who wrote (35753)	7/19/2025 12:10:18 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37059

Correlation does not mean cause. What you posted is an example of torturing the data until it tells you what you want to hear. ourworldindata.org Number of lives saved by childhood vaccinations from 1974 to 2024, World By the time you finish reading this, around 30 children will have been saved thanks to vaccines. 1 Over the last 50 years, that adds up to 150 million children. 2 That’s more than twice the population of the United Kingdom. That’s 150 million children who will grow up, experience life, and contribute to the world; over a hundred million sets of parents who were spared the tragedy of having to bury their children. This figure comes from a new study from Andrew Shattock and other researchers from around the world. They estimated the number of lives saved from vaccinations against different diseases over the past 50 years. 3 The two charts below show the number of lives saved, broken down by disease and region. Vaccination against measles has had the biggest impact, saving 94 million lives over the last 50 years — more than 60% of the total. 4 Data source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization – Learn more about this data OurWorldinData.org/vaccination