In 2021 there were no lightning deaths in the US as of June [0]. This stat compares the lifetime odds of death from lightning [1] to several months of covid data.
Yes the author of this article seems not to know statistics very well and is comparing apples to oranges, and why did wapo let it get published with such glaring wrong logic. Being an opinion piece doesn’t mean throw out all standards.
2021 has had an uncommonly low number of deaths. The same link says the 10 year average is 25 fatalities per year, and on average about 7 by the end of July.
Funnily enough, one of the reported SAEs for the original Moderna trial was a (non-fatal) lightning strike. Obviously, this was nothing to do with the vaccine, but Moderna did have to declare it.
I love how the burden of proof is apparently on the people who don't want to take the highly experimental rushed to market treatment that is making its manufacture (and those in government who are linked to said manufacturers) rich. I swear it only took 5 years to convert everybody from "don't trust the gov" to "blindly trust the government!"
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- 1,263 covid deaths in the USA out of 163M vaccinated [2]. 1263/163M = 7.75e-6 and it's not even August.
Seems wrong, by more than (vaccinated=1263/163M)/(lightning=41/328M) = 62x. Or am I missing something?
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
0 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather...
1 - https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
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2021 has had an uncommonly low number of deaths. The same link says the 10 year average is 25 fatalities per year, and on average about 7 by the end of July.