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It's an interesting idea, but seems like that proposal would have to compared to the alternative of vaccination. There's already a vaccine which has been creat
by adrianmonk 7y ago
It's an interesting idea, but seems like that proposal would have to compared to the alternative of vaccination.
There's already a vaccine which has been created and which entered the first phase of trials today (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/first-stage-of-covid-19-vaccine-testing-gets-under-way/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/first-stage-of-covid-...). If we're going for a radical plan (which, hope you're not offended, is how I'd characterize your proposal), then just skipping those trials and going straight to giving people that vaccine should be on the table.
So then you'd have to compare safety and efficacy of that against this vaccine. I'm not an expert at all, but it seems like we basically don't know the answer to any of those questions.
* We think that you can't get reinfected once you've had COVID-19. But we aren't sure.
* I don't think a method of predicting symptom severity (like you suggested) has been created, so we don't know its reliability.
* We also don't know if any of the new vaccines are safe.
* Nor do we know if any of the new vaccines are effective.