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Considering the ongoing experiment with novel mRNA technology, it's interesting, if confirmed, that we're learning after decades on the market that this drug so
by nnx 5y ago
Considering the ongoing experiment with novel mRNA technology, it's interesting, if confirmed, that we're learning after decades on the market that this drug so well-known and massively used could have some unforeseen side effects during pregnancy.
- ekianjo 5y agoYou are not supposed to say this kind of things nowadays, because we must blindly accept whatever the authorities tell us in 2021.
- bencollier49 5y agoWell, fortunately Hacker News doesn't employ the same "fact checking" service as Facebook or YouTube. There was a very important article on what to do if pulled over by an unmarked police car in the UK. FB's fact checker marked it as "false" because it didn't apply to the US.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoThat sounds reasonable to me. Except perhaps in the most unusual extreme circumstances, treating a British police officer with everything up to shear and utter contempt is likely to lead to nothing more than a stern talking to. While I'm sure we only hear the worst of the American police force, I'm still not confident that anything but absolute and total cooperation is a safe approach.
- bencollier49 5y agoIt came about as a result of people with fake police lights committing assaults. The advice in the UK is to carry on driving and pull up in the nearest possible public place, like a petrol station.
- Pyramus 5y agoDo I understand you correctly that the occurrence of false positives is more damaging than the distribution of misinformation? It's easy to say it's all black or all white, as a matter of fact we live in a world that's different shades of grey. It turns out that social media is the perfect vector to spread misinformation and it's costing lives today. Where do you draw the line?
- adrianN 5y agoWe also don't know what unforeseen side effects of an infection with Covid we'll discover in the coming years.
- Angostura 5y agoOh we already know that Covid is not great during pregnancy, leading to slightly increased risk of premature birth, apart from anything else.
- lamontcg 5y agoAlso increased risk of orphaned child
- hadlock 5y agoYeah Arthur C. Clarke (of 2001: A Space Oddessey fame, among other monumenal science fiction works) famously had polio, but later (28 years later!) experienced partial paralysis in his 40s. He ended up mostly in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Prior to that he had no signficant health complications. You could call it "long polio". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-polio_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-polio_syndrome We'll only find out about long-term side effects of Covid... when/if they happen. Should be interesting, to say the least.
- Pyramus 5y agoThe point you make is unrelated to mRNA technology or Covid vaccines - it can happen, has happened (thalidomide, pandemrix, etc.) and will happen again. I don't see why we this discussion has to be so politically charged. Life as an adult is all about taking risks, and most of the time a risk-less alternative does not exist. To go back to your example: To make Covid vaccines more risky than say, alcohol, (or another common drug), a lot has to happen. Can it happen? Yes. How likely is it? Very unlikely. Still people take great risks every day: Drinking alcohol, driving a car, eating unhealthy, taking pain killers, etc.
- Lutger 5y agoIn this case, it's best compared to covid19 itself since not taking the vaccine will almost certainly result in getting covid. That risk isn't so great, also not long-term. There's already a lot of evidence and indication for that.
- adrianN 5y agoThere is also a lot of evidence that the vaccines are safe and effective.