By the Numbers: Vaccines Are Safe

Many claims in recent years concern the flu vaccine, which health officials now recommend annually for adults and children — and which accounts for almost half of all the vaccine doses distributed these days. Over roughly the last dozen years (from 2006 through 2017, the period for which the injury compensation program has dosage data), more than 1.5 billion doses of flu vaccine were given out. Many of those claims do not relate to the vaccine itself, but to shoulder injuries, usually in adults, that occurred because a health provider injected a vaccine in the wrong spot on the shoulder.

Source: www.nytimes.com