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So for this question, i wanted to reference this article by abc news.
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And it talks about how side effects are less common than what people think.
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And it references this article by the beth israel -dekona's medical center.
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What they did was they took a bunch of vaccine safety trials that had people shot with a placebo vaccine and the actual vaccine.
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So they took these 12 different trials.
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And they found out that after the first shot, two -thirds of people experienced side effects like headache and fatigue, which were because of the placebo shot.
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So they didn't actually get the shot, but they reported that they had the side effects.
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And nearly a quarter of the people, the people who received the placebo shot, experienced side effects like a sore arm.
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So a large number of people, according to this study, experienced side effects because of the placebo shot.
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So what they're thinking is that perhaps the reported side effects that we see in the news may not actually be an side effect from the vaccine.
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It may be because of the placebo effects.
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What i find really interesting about this study is that many people, when they are determining whether or not they want the vaccine, they decide not to go ahead and go through with it because they are afraid of the side effects.
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They don't want headaches or muscle soreness or any of the other symptoms.
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And they're just scared of the vaccine.
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And they hear stories about how people, you know, feel sick all day or for two days, three days, have a sore arm.
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I personally had actual side effects.
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And i know it's not from the placebo effect because i had a fever.
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But still, a lot of people may just think that they're.
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Have effects because of placebo.
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So what i really think is neat about this in terms of the question, statistics and probability helps us make decisions based on data analysis.
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So when people analyze the data, and this could also be anecdotal evidence too, when people hear that their friends may have had bad side effects, they're like, oh...