Project Tycho: Disease Database Shows Lives Saved From Vaccines

By Dina Fine Maron (Click here for the original article) To find out when whooping cough started making a comeback in Ohio, or how often measles kills in America, we turn to historical records. But those records aren't very useful when they're squirreled away in a distant office basement. The same goes for when they are embedded in a report--you can only look at them in the same way you might admire a painting, but you cannot drop the data into a spreadsheet and hunt for statistical significance. If you are only looking at a couple years' worth of information

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