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We are, collectively, doing a big mistake, by starting with the elder population. The population most likely to suffer from side effects due to their weakened b
by odiroot 6y ago
We are, collectively, doing a big mistake, by starting with the elder population. The population most likely to suffer from side effects due to their weakened bodies. They're also the easiest to isolate, usually being out of the labour market.
We should have started with the most mobile people from the working-age population. They're the super-spreaders and least likely to suffer from the side effects.
Old people (and children) could possibly avoid the vaccination at all, when the rest develops herd immunity.
- _up 6y agoYou are infected with Media misinformation there is no expected herd immunity. This focus seems to be to reduce the severity for now. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31976-0/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- annirun 6y agoI'm not sure the authors of that article would still support it on new information. The argument they're making is "assume a vaccine is 50% effective at an immunity response, and that before an immunity response kicks in there is still a brief period of time where you are contagious with a small viral load. (50% * infectiousness of immune person) + (50% * infectiousness of an unprotected person) = a lot of infectiousness" sub out that 50% for 95% (information that has come out more recently than the published date for that article) and the math looks very different. Still not "CORONA EXTINCT BY APRIL"... but much better than what you're implying