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How bad is this result and the similar result on the AstraZeneca vaccine? Does it mean that the South African variant will almost certainly cause another pande
by devit 6y ago
How bad is this result and the similar result on the AstraZeneca vaccine?
Does it mean that the South African variant will almost certainly cause another pandemic in countries vaccinated with those (thus requiring a revaccination with an mRNA vaccine) or is there somehow a chance that the variant won't be prevalent?
- throwaway4good 6y agoI believe az had similar (bad) results which caused south africa to pause the rollout.
- petre 6y agoYup, except none of the recipients in the AZ study had severe cases.
- Barrin92 6y agothe problem is of course that even if that's true, if the virus spreads asymptomatically the same mutation risk applies to the variant itself and at some point then we might up with something that again completely escapes immunity and vaccination. It's just evolution in action. Any variant that dodges the vaccine starts a new game of dice.
- petre 6y agoWell, what's the alternative? Get covid19 and risk death or life long ill effects? The virus mutates anyway in healty individuals that develop mild cases. There's enough of a scadal with the AZ vaccine in the EU, people don't want to get vaccinated with it because of blood clots with in DIC 0.35/1M and CVST in 0.9/1M individuals[1] and fever for a day, the company has rebdand it as Vaxzevria in an attempt to reduce the fallout. The vaccination rollout is not going well in the EU, it was even criticised by the WHO as being too slow. Yet this vaccine works and can probably stop the pandemic and save lives along with the others. I took my chanches and got vaccinated with it a week and a half ago, instead of waiting for something better and risk getting covid in the meantime. I might have taken Sputnik V as well if nothing else was available. AZ at least seems to work, was proven at least on 1/4 of the UK population. Their cases seem to go down. I guess we'll see. 1. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-benefits-still-outweigh-risks-despite-possible-link-rare-blood-clots https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene...
- amluto 6y agoIIRC no one in either arm of that study had a serious case. The study was nearly useless.
- throwaway4good 6y agoI don’t think it is the vaccine technology rather what part of the virus the vaccine causes the immune system to react on.
- newdude116 6y agoIf I may point to a comment of mine that got heavily downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664839