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> it's hard to imagine why some countries there have suspended it's use Really? I can imagine quite a few reasons: * When usage was suspended, it wasn't yet k

> it's hard to imagine why some countries there have suspended it's use Really? I can imagine quite a few reasons: * When usage was suspended, it wasn't yet known whether it was limited to 18 cases or that was just the top of the iceberg. * Even 1 death in a million outpaces COVID-19 deaths in young people, so vaccinating could be worse than not doing anything for them. * Vaccins with fatal side effects can significantly reduce the willingness to be vaccinated, so even if statistically it's a good trade-off, the end result can be better by not using it. And it's not like the doses that would've been used in those few days were thrown away. They were simply rescheduled for a week later -- the full vaccination effort isn't going to be done any day later due to this delay.

raverbashing 6y ago
> Even 1 death in a million outpaces COVID-19 deaths in young people It absolutely doesn't https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatality-rates-sex-and-age-15163 https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatalit... In the 20-24 range it is 60 per million 40-49 range it is ~ 10x that
- Denvercoder9 6y ago
  Well, yes, but you have to consider that (hopefully) everyone will get the vaccine, and not everyone will get COVID. Infection rates are below 1 out of 60 in many countries. To be fair, I shouldn't have said that it'd be better than doing nothing (because in that case eventually everyone will get COVID-19), but it'd still be better to wait for another vaccine.