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As I understand it from talking with a healthcare worker it isn't so much that it's less effective if you already have the infection (though it is) it's more ju
by Teever 2y ago
As I understand it from talking with a healthcare worker it isn't so much that it's less effective if you already have the infection (though it is) it's more just a triage decision.
People in various health care systems around the world have just done a cost benefit analysis and decided that it isn't worth paying for the vaccine for older people, that we'll just let them get cancer and go through treatment/die.
- rawgabbit 2y agoThe other confusing thing is the benefit to risk ratio. Looking at the WHO rates of cervical cancer for Canada with almost complete vaccination rate vs Japan with almost zero vaccination rate, you can argue the vaccine cuts cervical cancer by 2/3. But when you look at the numbers at a per annual basis, the probability of getting cervical cancer is 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-jpn-country-profile-2021 https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-jpn-... https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-can-country-profile-2021 https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-can-...