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Agreed. Taking a conservative approach to something you don't yet understand is the best approach on a mass scale. There isn't any significant data for the one
by excerionsforte 6y ago
Agreed. Taking a conservative approach to something you don't yet understand is the best approach on a mass scale. There isn't any significant data for the one dose approach. These vaccines are only authorized on an EUA on a specific way to apply the dosage and it would be foolhardly to experiment now with different approaches on health care workers who are high risk on the front line.
Definitely need more data on the single dose approach and if that proves safe enough then providers can go that route. Playing with people's health because we want to go cowboy and extract many doses as possible is irresponsible.
What happens if the single dose approach doesn't work as well as hoped? I wouldn't want to be that guinea pig who thought "I'm protected". How long will it be that all hospitals get the information to go back to the two dose approach. Consistent messaging is key during this pandemic. That alone has been hard enough.
- Animats 6y agoYes. At this phase, it's best to stick to what's known to work. Besides, right now most countries are having more problems getting immunizations done than getting vaccine supplies. Broward County, FL just put vaccinations on Eventbrite, as a fast way to get appointments set up.[1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213307/covid-vaccine-florida-eventbrite https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213307/covid-vaccine-flo...
- propogandist 6y ago>What happens if the single dose approach doesn't work as well as hoped? "240 Israelis found with COVID after vaccination, underscoring need for vigilance" https://www.timesofisrael.com/240-israelis-diagnosed-after-vaccination-underscore-need-for-continued-vigilance/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/240-israelis-diagnosed-after-v...
- makomk 6y agoThis will happen under any dosing schedule, because we already know the vaccine doesn't become effective until some time after the first dose. (Which is also one of the reasons it's hard to tell exactly how much benefit the second dose gives.)
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- esoterica 6y agoLetting a few hundred thousand extra people die because of a slow vaccine rollout is not the conservative approach. If you give more people a single dose you may be gambling that those people receive sufficient uncertainty, but if you give fewer people two doses you are ALSO GAMBLING with the lives of people who do not receive a vaccine. There is no "safe" option here. You just have to make educated guesses about the probabilities and risks involved instead of pretending that one approach is the "safe, conservative" one.