Between 1988 and 2017, approximately 18,000 vaccine injury c…
Between 1988 and 2017, approximately 18,000 vaccine injury claims were filed into the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Approximately 11,000 were dismissed. The rest, about 5,500 patients received compensation. Divided over 29 years, that works out to around 200 cases per year. In the United States that translates as one vaccine injury per million doses of vaccine each year. How are those odds? Which is more likely: sustaining a vaccine injury or being struck by lightning?