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OSUmetstud

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    Its because we have the travel restrictions. It works better than anything else.
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    I think the data suggest small family gatherings are driving a lot of infection. Schools themselves don't appear to be a major driver. Im sure there's some seasonality. Less people are outside in October/November and respiratory viruses tended to spread better in cooler/lower humidity environments. The infection controls that worked in August may be less effective now.
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    We've barely tried. We dont invest a lot of resources in diseases that barely kill people. The science has been there for a long time...the money and the will of a pandemic was missing. The 90% may come down but there's no reason it has to.
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    I thought for sure you were fairly down on it along with Richard because there's never been a vaccine for the other coronaviruses and the common cold. But I don't really feel like digging. Seems like the opportunity cost for delaying infections is even greater now that a vaccine is very close.
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    I'm sure there will be difficulties with distribution like cold storage but they'll figure it out. You were so sure they wouldn't create one in the first place.
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    No I mean in general though. Your whole capitalism communism argument. Some of the vaccine production was heavily bolstered by govt monies (US with Moderna and the UK with AZN/Oxford).
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    Governments all over the world have helped fund the vaccine effort. Equitable distribution was kinda part of the deal. This was not a wholly capitalistic endeavor. Im pretty sure that many govts made a pre-purchase of the Pfizer/bioNTech vaccine candidate, including Canada with 20 million doses.
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    This is a global effort. How's your no vaccine call looking?
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    Pfizer/BioNtech is a global company that wasnt funded through operation warp speed. The US govt bought a decent amount of initial doses to immunize first responders. The US doesn't have carte blanch on the vaccine and why would anyone think the us should get all its people vaccinated before other places?
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    Read the article.
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    Yikes lol
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    Lol no. It's Derek Lowe, PhD
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    A bit more from the Red Sox pitcher.
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    Its a risk calculation at its most basic. I am more likely to get serious complications or die from an authorized vaccine or from covid over the next year or two?
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    Indeed
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    I'm glad the infrastructure is in place but this vaccine is not part of operation warp speed. Thats a fact. Derek lowe is a scientist and blogs about vaccines and therapeutics often. That's why I posted it.
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    The approval process is not exactly normal given the pandemic. This will probably go through EUA like the anthrax vaccine. But that's because we don't have like a year to wait for the longest term efficacy and safety data. We will have the efficacy/safety we have now to base the EUA on. Full approval will likely wait until well into next year.
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    Theyre not approving the vaccine based on a Pfizer press release.
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    We haven't seen the data yet. This was a press release.
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    Yes. And as far as I know the primary end point was disease prevention...not infection prevention.
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    It doesn't make sense imo for Pfizer to greatly exaggerate the efficacy data because they are going to be going in front of the vaccine advisory board and the fda very soon. Independent scientists and the public will be able to see the data and make an objective decision for an EUA.
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    For health young people like yourself? Idk maybe late spring into early fall?
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