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That's what you have studies for! Glad they caught it before it got into the wild. Also, it's really great that there are multiple vaccines. Just imagine what
by est31 6y ago
That's what you have studies for! Glad they caught it before it got into the wild.
Also, it's really great that there are multiple vaccines. Just imagine what happens when everyone gets a single vaccine that turns out to very often cause an adverse reaction...
- LeoNatan25 6y agoAnd this is why trials must be allowed to run their course, not use vaccines as political propaganda, like what the Russian gangster and the orange clown are doing for their own political gains.
- WalterBright 6y agoAll drugs have adverse side effects. The idea is the "therapeutic index" being the ratio of the good to the bad. In this case, balancing the risk of the vaccine against the reality of all the deaths that covid is causing. Waiting for a zero risk vaccine is not the optimal decision.
- LeoNatan25 6y agoBut waiting for a reasonably safe and risk-free vaccine is, which is the point of the trials.
- _jahh 6y agoit is also true that this does not mean that this vaccine will not be the reasonably safe and risk-free one
- LeoNatan25 6y agoOf course. The trails must run their course, data must be reviewed. I’m just horrified that CDC and FDA are being pressured by the orange clown’s administration to cut corners. This is a sobering reminder why this must not be done.
- WalterBright 6y agoA lot of people will die waiting for the vaccine. I haven't seen the CDC and FDA spokesmen take this publicly into account.
- andreareina 6y agoWhat's the alternative? A few months ago drug discovery chemist Derek Lowe wrote an article saying that frequently strict experimental procedures are the only way to tease out enough statistical power.
- WalterBright 6y ago> enough statistical power Meaning the adverse effects are small enough to require large numbers to discern. Balance this against the predictable number of covid deaths from waiting for those large numbers.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoMost countries have already had SARS-2 work its way through them significantly. The utility of a vaccine might be lower than you think. NZ comes to mind as a country that has barely built up any immunity (due to them trying to contain it completely). They can expect more utility from a vaccine than otherwise. Anyway, given the incredibly low rate of both mortality and also any real consequences in, say, those under age 55, their personal benefit of a vaccine is incredibly low. So it really comes down to whether you’re a Sweden person or a New Zealand person. I’m a Sweden person personally.
- orra 6y ago> Most countries have already had SARS-2 work its way through them significantly. Noope, that isn’t what antibody testing shows. Take England for example. Coronavirus working its way through a mere, say, 6% of the population is devastating. > The utility of a vaccine might be lower than you think. Nonsense. We need to protect the other 94%.
- raxxorrax 6y agoThe situation in Sweden suggests that any serious risk model cannot accept a wide scale vaccine solution within a near time window.
- anoncake 6y agoNot everyone. Just the ones who thought it was a good idea to get injected with a rushed vaccine.