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Elementary economic thinking answers this question. Benefits asymptote, so you'll stop at the point where the marginal benefit of an additional shot is less th
by fighterpilot 5y ago
Elementary economic thinking answers this question.
Benefits asymptote, so you'll stop at the point where the marginal benefit of an additional shot is less than the marginal financial cost, marginal opportunity cost and marginal cost of side effects all combined.
That's definitely not the case before two and may not be the case before three based on data we've seen. It might be the case before four.
And this doesn't factor in declining immunity over time. It might make sense to keep taking shots every half a year forever, until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps.
- velcii 5y ago>You'll asymptote, so you'll stop at the point where the marginal benefit of an additional shot is less than the marginal financial cost, marginal opportunity cost and marginal cost of side effects all combined. But this is already the case for young people and people who already had covid and recovered, but we don't see them excluded from vaccinations based on their risk profile. So I think there is no reason to think that this logic will be applied more truthfully at some arbitrary time in future.
- iamthepieman 5y agoThis is basically what is done with the flu shot although it's a very different mechanism in the actual vaccine.
- tboyd47 5y ago> until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps. How do we know that that hasn't already happened? If we don't know, when will we know?
- fighterpilot 5y agoWe will know when CFR/IFR goes down among unvaxxed people who haven't had COVID before.
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