Your odds of being killed in a car crash are one in 102; being struck by lightning, one in 15,300; dying in a plane crash, one in 205,000; being eaten by a shark, one in 4 million; or dying in a tornado, one in 5.6 million.
Your odds of developing a blood clot by taking the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine: less than 17 in six million. Out of more than six million J&J vaccines given, only 17 people developed a clot following the vaccine.
I go over these morbidity figures as the Center of Disease Control reported early this past week that just 25.4% of Hoosiers have been vaccinated, ranking 45th in the United States, while the Indiana State Department of Health puts it at 26.4%. Neighboring Michigan has turned into a COVID hot spot, with emergency rooms swamped with younger patients. Itâs encroaching into northern Indiana, with hospitals in Elkhart and Goshen at capacity, while statewide hospitalizations were up 50% since March.