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And I'm happy you mention polio because it's a great example of what can happen when we allow companies to rush their product without enough safety standards:
by codeflow2202 5y ago
And I'm happy you mention polio because it's a great example of what can happen when we allow companies to rush their product without enough safety standards:
In April 1955, soon after mass polio vaccination began in the US, the Surgeon General began to receive reports of patients who contracted paralytic polio about a week after being vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine from the Cutter pharmaceutical company, with the paralysis limited to the limb the vaccine was injected into. The Cutter vaccine had been used in vaccinating 200,000 children in the western and midwestern United States.[76] Later investigations showed that the Cutter vaccine had caused 40,000 cases of polio, killing 10.[76] In response the Surgeon General pulled all polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories from the market, but not before 250 cases of paralytic illness had occurred. Wyeth polio vaccine was also reported to have paralyzed and killed several children. It was soon discovered that some lots of Salk polio vaccine made by Cutter and Wyeth had not been properly inactivated, allowing live poliovirus into more than 100,000 doses of vaccine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
- adriancr 5y ago1. Same site: > The inactivated polio vaccines are very safe 2. Do you have to worry about polio now?, no, why? 3. We have processes in place to verify vaccines, that's why you got news about janssen or whatever throwing away millions of doses due to contamination.
- codeflow2202 5y agoYou are not opposing my point: 1. shit happened 2. rules have been put in place to avoid it from happening again 3. we are now skipping these rules in the name of urgency. These are not vaccines but gene therapies that have never been tested. History proves risks do exist when new therapies are given to people. I suppose when a normal vaccine like the novavax is coming out there won't be as much opposition.
- adriancr 5y agoI don't understand your skepticism... Alas... not my business... I took the vaccine and there are no side effects. Same for all people I know. Same for countless others. If you bring up risk, I think a much bigger risk is the virus destroying a good part of your lungs/kidneys/heart/etc... Ending up in ER and dieing... And without everyone vaccinating it won't disappear. Either way, good luck
- codeflow2202 5y ago> And without everyone vaccinating it won't disappear. Either way, good luck There are big doubts about it. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.20240309v1.full-text https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.20240309v... Also: many people that look into the data of how therapies are going, have high hopes for Novavax, which seems very promising and works in a more "classic way". Sure some people will never get inoculated with anything but that's a different story.