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Saving lifes for a month doesn't make sense?
by The_rationalist 6y ago
Saving lifes for a month doesn't make sense?
- Infinitesimus 6y agoDepends on the cost. If they use resources to roll out am ineffective vaccine now to the detriment of future attempts to roll out effective options, waiting might be a better choice. Also, there is enough vaccine skepticism in the world today and I'm not sure vast distribution of something with questionable efficacy is necessarily a good idea.
- babesh 6y agoRead the comment by Clewza313. The vaccine doesn’t seem to protect the people in the study (young people). Young people don’t tend to die from covid. They don’t know if it would work on older people but I would think it wouldn’t either. This doesn’t look like it actually saves lives. The study may be early to really tell but so far there is no evidence that the vaccine works at all against the variant that is widespread in South Africa.
- necovek 6y agoThat's too simplistic: getting hundreds of thousands of at-risk people mixing with others in order to get a shot of an ineffective vaccine — I imagine the net result wouldn't be saving any lives at a cost of delaying alternative vaccines for these people for longer (I guess interactions between them have been even less tested).