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As is typical for this comment thread, in this comment I will claim that pausing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths beca
by prof-dr-ir 6y ago
As is typical for this comment thread, in this comment I will claim that pausing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths because that is how many people will die if we do not have a vaccine. All this to save 1 out of 7 million lives. In passing I would like to call everybody involved in the decision idiotic.
- prof-dr-ir 6y agoAs is typical for this comment thread, in this top-voted [0] reply to this comment I will point out that pausing one vaccine is not the same as stopping the entire vaccination program forever. I would in addition like to point out that once cannot simply compare the risks because they can vary wildly across populations, and that the one out of seven million might not be a reliable estimate. Might it not be good to wait until we know the actual risk, given also the abundance of other types of vaccine? [0] one can hope
- prof-dr-ir 6y agoAs is typical for this comment thread, in further replies we can happily claim the effect that this has on the anti-vaxxing crowd, whose thinking we are all extremely familiar with. Of course, since we are all careful people we will also balance the effects of the decision to pause the vaccine against the decision not to pause in the face of potential blood clotting issues.