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 ? Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991 chance of survival."
Fact-check: Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video - Science Feedback
Verdict: flawed reasoning
Organisation: Science Feedback
Author: Flora Teoh
Date published: 2021-02-04T11:23:48