Well, that's great. If you do something your government asks you to do, and it adversely affects your health, you should be compensated.
But as you can read in the article only 0.01 % of those vaccinated experienced serious side effects, so one in ten thousand.
And a total of 4 deaths attributed to the vaccine. Compare that to all the lives that were saved!
Now, if I understand it correctly some 59,000 people died from covid in Canada, and studies have showed that the vaccines reduced the mortality risk by roughly 70% (Originally it was said 90%, but as the virus mutated, overall efficiency was reduced).
Roughly 80% got the vaccine.
So, if we put that as an equation and set the covid mortality rate for unvaccinated as X (not knowing how many got infected) and the mortality rate for vaccinated as 0.3X (a 70% reduction of risk), it would be 0.2X+0.8(0.3X)=59000. That gives us 0,44X=59000, and so the number of dead for a completely unvaccinated population should be 59000/0.44 = 134000.
134000-59000 is 75000, so a rough estimatee would be that the vaccine saved some 75000 Canadian lives while it cost a total of 4 lives.
In addition a few thousand people got blood clots or myocarditis from the vaccine, and should be compensated by the government for this.
But in all fairness, the risk of getting myocarditis from a covid infection was roughly ten times higher than getting it from the vaccine, so the number of myocarditis cases would have been even higher if the entire population were unvaxxed.
I haven't seen the exact numbers regarding blood clots, but they were a common complication for people with covid, which is why I had to take some blood thinning medication for a full month after my hospitalization with covid. Thus I expect that the vaccine actually reduced the number cases of blood clots as well as myocarditis in the population as a whole, but of course that is little comfort to those who did get it from the vaccine, so I am fully supportive of them getting compensation.
I just wish the vaccine had arrived sooner, so that my wife would still be here.
That was early on, so probably a 90% chance that it would have saved her.
