Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity

Re:Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Co... by gridlockd on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:42AM (#24080133)

You mean you can't "ethically" infect people? I disagree, it just comes down to risk. Many vaccines and medications have rare but potentially severe side-effects, but we administer them anyway due to risk versus reward.

Let's say you have a 5% chance of dying from COVID-19, a 10% chance of contracting it, but only a 0.05% chance of dying from some harmless coronavirus that would reduce your chance of dying from COVID-19 by half. It would be irrational not to deliberately contract the harmless coronavirus.

The problem is just that we don't know all these variables, especially for a given individual.

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Re:Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Co... by raxxorrax on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:08AM (#24080294)

A potential COVID vaccine is an example. I doubt you could ethically instruct people to get a shot for such a health experiment. You can require them to get one to use certain services, but bodily autonomy has precedence in my opinion. That is even more relevant for living pathogens.

Being together with other humans is always a health risk if you want to look at it like that. While it might be incredible stupid to not take the lesser risk, you cannot force people to be rational.

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