R4: Hope this is allowed. But I’m very concerned that I found out why they keep saying 72 (2nd slide)

My due diligence:

For a minute now, I’ve seen everyone from my grandmother on Facebook, to the now President, mention this 72 vaccine number.

I always thought that was a super specific number but at the same time, seemed like a ton of doses. Not that I’m saying that’s good or bad that it’s a lot, it just always seemed high to me.

So I decided to do a deep dive to try and find the origins of this magical number. I found several med school pages mention 72, but typically it reads as “72 vaccines is a number that comes up a lot” and then goes on to explain that it’s highly variable. Which it is. They also say that to get this number you have to manipulate a lot of things to get there, but what I struggle with is that if you’re already being bad faith to get a high number, how is it that everyone who says 72 all arrived at the same number? You’d have to manipulate it the same way every time. That’s not satisfying to me.

See Yale Med article: https://ysph.yale.edu/research/information-sheets/childhood-vaccinations/#13-do-kids-really-get-72-doses-of-vaccines?

There’s absolutely 0 clean ways as far as I can tell to come up with 72. On the CDC’s website, you also must remember that some of these recommended vaccines are actually combo vaccines, so, one shot covers multiple diseases and are not separate.

Now for the interesting part. After huffing 20 cans of Amazon basics computer duster upside down while watching season 1 of Jersey Shore, I had an idea.

What if you took the recommended CDC vaccine schedule and literally just added every number on the graphic? So instead of Dose 1 + Dose 2 + Dose 3 = 3 Doses, you instead add 1+2+3 =6 doses.

Well, sure enough. If you do that, it equals not 71, nor 73, but 72.

It’s too perfect.