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Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes... Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting
by spurgu 5y ago
Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes...
Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting also to not that we don't even knows why it does that:
> The reason for the efficacy of the new mRNA vaccines is not clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Efficacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Efficacy
- simonh 5y agoWhere do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities? That’s certainly not the experience here I’m the UK. They seem to reduce the death and serious illness rate in otherwise healthy people just fine.
- spurgu 5y ago> Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities? How do you draw that conclusion? I never said that. Vaccines work across the board. But to illustrate an extreme, they do practically nothing to kids. For 80+ year olds they're miracle drugs.