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With the death rate is so slow for large portions of the population, the vaccine will have basically no margin for error. How do you convince parents to vaccina
by rustybelt 6y ago
With the death rate is so slow for large portions of the population, the vaccine will have basically no margin for error. How do you convince parents to vaccinate kids for a disease that has say a .001% fatality rate for those under 17 unless the vaccine is even safer?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe same way you convince them to get a flu or chickenpox vaccine. Most people won't mind, and "most people" is enough for effective containment of diseases less contagious than measles.
- javagram 6y agoTheir kids likely have grandparents.
- Kaze404 6y agoI think it's safe to say that most people won't need to be convinced.
- tpnCC 6y agoThe complete details on the pathophysiology of the disease are far from known yet. For instance "The death of a five-year-old boy in New York of inflammatory complications possibly linked to Covid-19 has prompted Andrew Cuomo, the state’s governor, to warn of “an entirely different chapter” of a disease that had been believed to cause only mild symptoms in children." "Cuomo later tweeted that there have been 73 reported cases in New York of children falling severely ill with a toxic shock-like reaction that displays symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/children-coronavirus-death-kawasaki https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/children-coron...
- pvaldes 6y agoIn the same hospital?