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Thank you for the comprehensive response. All of your points are fair and I like your logic. Particularly, you make a good point regarding differing manufactur
by NamTaf 6y ago
Thank you for the comprehensive response. All of your points are fair and I like your logic.
Particularly, you make a good point regarding differing manufacturing locations and possible batch issues. I did not consider that. It wasn't my intention to be dishonest, but I agree that it was flawed logic to think ti would necessarily apply.
What it does highlight, though, is that it's reasonable to consider this particular batch/source of the AZ vaccine to be risky, but I think then it's important to then stress that "The AZ Vaccine" in general temrs is not automatically undermined by this, since evidence clearly demonstrates that other locations have used it successfully without this issue. To me, this is an important distinction to draw since without it, public confidence in the AZ vaccine as a whole is undermined.
Public rejection of vaccines other than Pfizer & Moderna is a particular concern of mine, as I believe the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines have a much higher barrier to manufacture, so there's much less ability to scale them in the short-to-medium term. As far as I'm concerned, we need vaccines such as from AZ, J&J, etc. to be able to produce vaccines at the scale necessary to move from only vaccinating the elderly in 1st world countries, to vaccinating 7+ billion across the entire globe.
As an aside, I really appreciate that this discussion was fact-based, respectful and open-minded. It's an incredibly refreshing change compared to the overwhelming majority of other vaccine-related discussions I endure! Thank you, to you and to the HN community in general for this quality of discourse.
- kossTKR 6y agoAll fair points, - i also appreciate the quality discussion! Luckily a myriad of vaccines are on their way with differing technologies. As far as i know many of them "better" in various ways, so i hope we at some point are going to get something very robust, even for variations - but that also makes it so important to be extremely cautious in the meantime - as with the current AZ vaccine in the northern regions.