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In theory: vaccine could work only on people who would anyway not die. Do they test for vaccine innefectiveness corelation with virus lethality and/or complica
by nytgop77 6y ago
In theory: vaccine could work only on people who would anyway not die.
Do they test for vaccine innefectiveness corelation with virus lethality and/or complications?
- rswail 6y agoWhy would the vaccine only work on people that wouldn't die? The vaccine trains the body to kill the virus (SARS-Cov-2) when it enters, not deal with the symptoms of the virus using the body to replicate (COVID-19). Vaccines stop infection. Therapeutics stop disease. The map is not the territory.
- nytgop77 6y agomy (laymans) model/hipothesis how this could work. There are two groups of people. Latent antibody bombs (on slitghest signal antibodies go from zero to hero) and antibody deserts (where even at late stages of desease only low antibody counts are produced). Those which easily make antibodies, kill off the virus quick enough to get significantly less side effects compared to the other group. IF such model would hold, then it would be natural that antibody deserts dont produce much antibodies when reacting to vaccine, so there would be corellation between succeptible to covid mortality and vaccine innefectiveness.
- davrosthedalek 6y agoIn theory, yes. The trials clearly showed a reduction of bad cases too, so very unlikely. AFAIK, nobody died during the tests, so technically not tested.
- nytgop77 6y agoreduction of bad cases is good enough indicator for me.