Gavin de Becker
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Fewer than one in 100,000 people getting tetanus.
I'm not talking about death.
In Russia, one death in 2022.
In all of Europe, a few deaths.
But in the Congo, a lot.
So this is one of those things that you have to ask, what's the likelihood of risk?
And you have to say, does it work?
And does it work without any side effects?
Well, here's the reality.
If I get a serious injury, deep puncture wound, right, and I go to the hospital, they clean it.
And I'm done right there.
Cleaning it is the end of it.
But let's say they failed to clean it well.
They always offer you a tetanus vaccine anyway right there, even if you had one a year ago.
There's never a circumstance where they don't try to get you to take a tetanus vaccine.
So tetanus is the beautiful vaccine you can take at the time of the injury.
You don't have to take it prophylactically.
Five injections to little babies.
You don't have to do that.