“Vaccine vindication” (SN: 1/25/14, p. 5) stated that vaccines have prevented 103 million cases of childhood diseases such as polio and rubella in the United States since 1924.
“How can the study assume there were so many cases of illness that were prevented?” asked Carolyn Bredenberg in an e-mail.
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