vaccine efficacy

[Guest guest]

Curiously, how are vaccines labeled to be 85-95% effective according to

the CDC? How do they come up with those numbers? They argue that

those who are not vaccinated due to allergies or whatever are still

susecptible to the disease even though they are somewhat protected by

the majority being vaccinated around them...that is if the majority is

representative of the 85%. How can they know who falls under that 85%

number and who isn't? Are they simply using broad theories from animal

studies or basing it off of antibody response? Of which,they really

don't know what titer numbers confer immunity.

I'm just getting really frustrated at the CDC misconstruing their own

data to mislead pediatricians on the AAP site (because most won't go do

the digging themselves!!) and hence making us parents look like idiots

for refusing even though we try to back our reasons, but can't carry a

library of research with us to substantiate it.

Alice