But that 82% calculation was objectively incorrect. Many of the women vaccinated early in pregnancy were still pregnant when the short study ended, so their ongoing pregnancies were missing from the denominator. And The original Shimabukuro study was subsequently corrected. as well. And the corrected paper acknowledged that the preliminary data did not provide an appropriate denominator for calculating the risk of spontaneous abortion. So we know that the 82% statistic was wrong. (03:24–03:32)
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