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February 7, 2025 54 mins
How do we decide which vaccines we should take?  This is a polarized issue making it hard to get good information.   Chris Downey has formed an organization vaxcalc which compiles massive data which can guide us in making these decisions.
He states common mistakes parents make when. Making such decisions include
·      Falling for media scare stories,
·      Not knowing contents of interventions
·      Giving into societal pressures
·      Not thinking of oneself as an empowered consumer
·      Ignoring "gut " feelings
·      Not belonging to a lifestyle community
 
 
Chris Downey, founder of VaxCalc
Chris is the founder and Director of VaxCalc Labs, the informed consent technology company. VaxCalc's purpose is to create a happier, healthier, more scientific and resilient world by empowering each individual to make their own vaccination decisions - with the tools, technology, planning capability, research and community they need to do it.
 
VaxCalc is the first business that celebrates vaccine hesitancy, providing a structured process, compassionate support, and a global online community for informed vaccination decision-making. VaxCalc expresses Chris's dream of creating a powerful force for good in the world by overcoming censorship, strengthening and spreading freedom, and creating community.
 
Chris has a strong background in databases and software development, having worked and trained at IBM's International Systems Center in Gaithersburg MD, built bank regulation software at the Federal Reserve Board, and consulted on Wall Street at DLJ.
 
He founded and ran an early dot-com company that made use of customized machine learning tools to identify important trends in online discussion such as discovering the first mentions of natural dog food at a time when the manufacturers were extending the shelf-life and still pushing the idea that dogs should eat corn.
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