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"[...I]mplementing large scale vaccination while large numbers of infected people interact with immunized people sounds like an efficient way to discover vaccin
by lumpa 6y ago
"[...I]mplementing large scale vaccination while large numbers of infected people interact with immunized people sounds like an efficient way to discover vaccine-escaping strains. This vaccine-escaping selection should be more than offset by the fact that vaccination will result in fewer infections and lessen the opportunity for more, worse strains to evolve.
Still, it would be better if we could avoid exposing a huge population of immunized people to a huge population of infected people. It's obvious everything would be better with fewer infected people, but it's still dawning on some that benefits include fewer strains and maybe more effective vaccination impacts."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071768
- maxerickson 6y agoHopefully the J&J vaccine gets approved and continues to work well. It is much more practical to send everywhere than the mRNA vaccines. Then the trick is to get wealthier countries to commit to making it widely available. (We can do the same with the Russian and Chinese vaccines if they are suitable; but the point is that it would be nice to see world leaders start talking about widespread vaccination as a global issue)