Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla...
by raverbashing on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:11AM
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Every vaccine/drug can have potential side effects, possibly in the 1 case to millions of doses. There's no such thing as a non-side-effect product.
However today there are ready armies of lawyers to sue for those very rare side effects that have a much lower fatality rate than the disease itself.
Are pharmaceutical companies the pinnacle of honesty and ethics? Of course not. Would it be worthy pulling a covid vaccine out of shelves if it caused a 1 in 1Mi serious side effect? No way.
Sure, you can try to identify and quantify the risk so maybe don't give this vaccine to people who might have a worse outcome, still, nothing is perfect.
However today there are ready armies of lawyers to sue for those very rare side effects that have a much lower fatality rate than the disease itself.
Are pharmaceutical companies the pinnacle of honesty and ethics? Of course not. Would it be worthy pulling a covid vaccine out of shelves if it caused a 1 in 1Mi serious side effect? No way.
Sure, you can try to identify and quantify the risk so maybe don't give this vaccine to people who might have a worse outcome, still, nothing is perfect.