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Originally Posted by ishoot308
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An excellent Sunday morning puzzle! Let's do the math...
The article notes 16,000 have reported tinnitus after receiving the covid vaccine. That's a lot of people and I agree that looks like a big number.
But in the US, 230,000,000 people took the vaccine, and the incidence of tinnitus in the US is about 10% (or maybe more)--that's 23,000,000 have tinnitus in total. So among the people who took the vaccine, we would expect 1,000,000 new cases per year of tinnitus
before any vaccines are given. (Googled round numbers here)
Now we want to know if vaccines might lead to an increase of the 1 million new cases that would have occurred anyway. We see that 16,000 have complained, we remember that 16,000 is 1.6% of 1,000,000, and all of a sudden, it's a very small number. Aren't more people than that always complaining about something?
I look forward to research showing whether the concern is warranted, but we can all find about a hundred things that we do every day--coffee, beef, chicken, eggs, beer, chocolate, white bread, computer screens, sitting...--that are a lot scarier than this.