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At the cost of how many lives? And if the vaccine is successful how would that harm buy-in? If not then it's a failed experiment (though obviously the PR impact
by barnacled 6y ago
At the cost of how many lives? And if the vaccine is successful how would that harm buy-in? If not then it's a failed experiment (though obviously the PR impact could be rather negative!)
I think it's pretty clear from the past year that we need different tools and approaches to dealing with pandemics. One part is clearly faster vaccine development (mRNA seems very promising for this) and pre-emptive vaccine development, another might be permitting very much informed consent take up early on.
- dazzawazza 6y agoThe cost of a dangerous vaccine could be one hundred years of lower uptake of ALL vaccines decimating the populations of nearly every country in the world. Not worth the risk if you ask me.
- barnacled 6y agoI'm not sure a small subset having a bad reaction to a known-untested vaccine they volunteered to have would have quite as bad an impact as you say, certainly not 100 years of lower uptake! It would likely have some kind of an impact though, and give fuel to anti-vaxxer types (yuk) but I am not sure the impact would be quite so severe.