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Dearh rate for sever cases is huge. We'll get the first test results at end of march/start of april. If I have 30% chance of dying I take anything that lowers

• hutzlibu 7y ago
  Even if the side effects are cancer in a year? Strong, consistent headache? Organ poisening? Permanent weakening of immune system? ... And you would have to be very old and with strong preconditions, to have a 30% death chance with corvid-19. And then any side effects would be even more fatal.
  • xiphias2 7y ago
    Why would I get those side effects? Remdesivir has already gone through safety trials years ago, it's in phase 3 now.
    • hutzlibu 7y ago
      "If I have 30% chance of dying I take anythingmthat lowers the chance significantly. "
• dnautics 7y ago
  That's arbitrary. What's the death rate for severe flu? If I define severe to be "throwing a fever of greater than 42 C" it'll be really high.
  • mellavora 7y ago
    flu mortality is about 0.1% though, like Covid, varies by age group/pre-existing. Also varies by strain/year
    • isbadawi 7y ago
      The parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.
      • xiphias2 7y ago
        The running trial gives the definitions, it's not ambigous as you wouldn't be able to run a Phase III trial without it.
• Robotbeat 7y ago
  That's true. A higher risk vaccine may be worth it for folks at high risk or with high exposure. Risk tolerance should be seen as a sliding scale, not as a binary.