Quote (Black XistenZ @ Dec 5 2020 05:02pm)
Bleh. If we could rule out all risks after just 9 months of trials, why are standard approval procedures leading to a timeline of around 5 years before a new vaccine gets greenlighted? Why has there never been a new vaccine which was developed and approved in less than 4 years?
The remaining risks aren't huge, and for people from a risk group, the obvious recommendation is "take the damn vaccine". But that's beside the point. The easy to see truth is that the governments of the world are willingly taking some small tail risk with these rushed vaccines because that's the lesser evil, compared to the death toll and economic damage caused by the pandemic with every passing month. And it's the right call, I agree with it. If I was a world leader, I would do the same. I just think that it would be hugely intellectually dishonest to deny that such a tradeoff exists; and that the tradeoff might not be as clear cut on a personal level as it is on the societal level.
The key question is: how rare are these types of long-term effects in young healthy patients? They can't be common, if they were, the world would have noticed by now.
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They are common enough where the world HAS noticed and all covid recovered are recommending imaging at 6 month down the line if any symptoms. As far as rates it’s too early to say, it’s not negligible which is why the armed forces are not taking any recruits who have had covid.
I hear your point. My point is you cannot be simultaneously complaining of getting back to normalcy but also refuse therapeutics to aid in that effect. As if Remdesivir which has been completely accepted by population does not have side effects? Remdesivir is a toxic medication and I personally have patients that are seeing liver specialists months later due to liver damage. Everything in medicine is a trade off and a risk stratification. My point is the word “vaccine” causes unnecessary anxiety. It’s a safe bet that Remdesivir is objectively more toxic than any vaccine will be, despite how low the risk is with remdesivir for kidney/liver toxicity
This post was edited by Bazi on Dec 5 2020 06:14pm