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bunkSauce t1_j7bycwe wrote

H1N1 affected like what, 15% of the population? And maybe 15% ish of the population were adolescents?

So 2.25% of the population were potentially kids affected with H1N1?

And 1% of the US has diabetes type 1?

So... the number of diabetic youth who may have been exposed to H1N1 is like 0.0225%?

I highly doubt, just from those numbers alone, that an association between H1N1, youth, and diabetes... would have any tangible, noticeable, or measureable effect in a truly controlled study. Literally even a 10% increase could be written off as an effect of many different factors other than H1N1.

Anyways. The idea of an association between H1N1 and diabetes has already been disproven. Don't fall down any anti vacc rabbitholes, this appears adjacent to that stuff.

Edit: reduced percent of population with diabetes, to refine from type 1 and 2, to just type 1.

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