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Flawed reasoning
Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
Claim:
“We have vaccines because we didn't have treatment for smallpox and it was a very deadly disease that made sense to have a vaccine. [...] but [COVID-19]? Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991[%] chance of survival.”