>Instead of admitting that they had overestimated the threat, Ford administration doubled down, preparing a series of frightening announcements that ran in regular rotation on the nation's television that fall.
>By late fall, another problem had emerged, this one far more serious. About five hundred patients, after receiving their shots, had begun to exhibit the symptoms of a rare neurological condition known as Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that can cause paralysis. This time, the statistical evidence was far more convincing: the usual incidence of Guillain-Barré in the general population is only about one case per million persons. In contrast, the rate in the vaccinated population had been ten times that-five hundred cases out of the roughly fifty million people who had been administered the vaccine.
>By late fall, another problem had emerged, this one far more serious. About five hundred patients, after receiving their shots, had begun to exhibit the symptoms of a rare neurological condition known as Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that can cause paralysis. This time, the statistical evidence was far more convincing: the usual incidence of Guillain-Barré in the general population is only about one case per million persons. In contrast, the rate in the vaccinated population had been ten times that-five hundred cases out of the roughly fifty million people who had been administered the vaccine.
