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taryneast comments on Expansion on A Previous Cost-Benefit Analysis of Vaccinating Healthy Adults Against Flu - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: taryneast 11 February 2015 07:52:37AM *  0 points [-]

My immediate thought is: but if I don't get a flu shot, I'm likely to catch the flu more than once in a year... each flu shot saves me more than once. Your value for "I get the flu and don't die" only seems to count the price of losing out on work once...