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When interpreting this, please also consider the warning [1] by Tedros Adhanom et al. in a letter in The Lancet: "[I]t is very important to adhere to WHO's rec
by Confiks 6y ago
When interpreting this, please also consider the warning [1] by Tedros Adhanom et al. in a letter in The Lancet:
"[I]t is very important to adhere to WHO's recommendation that the BCG vaccine is used for COVID-19 only in randomised controlled trials. (...) [T]he BCG vaccine is already in short supply, and indiscriminate use could jeopardise the supply needed to protect children against tuberculosis in high-risk areas."
[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31025-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- samatman 6y agoThis reminds me of the recommendation by, wouldn't you know it, the same people, that masks should only be worn by the visibly sick, and medical personnel. This disease has killed hundreds of thousands of people, and is on track to kill millions, quite aside from the terrible economic havoc which is just beginning. ramp up production of the fucking vaccine. We can afford to be wrong about this.
- zenexer 6y agoIt should be clear by this point that we aren’t really capable of ramping up production fast enough for many of the resources needed during a pandemic. Whether one attributed that to ignorance, incompetence, malice, or conspiracy doesn’t really matter; at the end of the day, the improvements we demand aren’t happening as fast as we’d like.
- nothal 6y agoI don't agree. If you ramp up production and millions get vaccinated with the expectation that it will protect them then it doesn't there will be tremendous antipathy and distrust of medical science as a result.