[Avodah] vaccinations

[Rich, Joel]

See Minchat shlomo 2:29:4. Quoting r Akiva eger. Mahadura kama 60 on the one in a Thousand threshold
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Joel rich
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<< The vaccination is not like that ? even when made and used
> correctly, we still expect about 1 in 1,000,000 children to die from it.
> That?s pretty scary,

Everything in life has some risk. Travelling by car probably carries a risk greater than 1 in a million.
Safek pikuah nefesh is docheh shabbat. Obviously one can't violate shabbat for every minuscule problem. I have heard in the name of R. Elyashiv that anything less than 1 in a thousand is not considered in halacha.

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