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FYI: 12 Monkeys was not a documentary.
Surely you see the difference between developing and giving yourself a coronavirus vaccine, and engineering a new smallpox virus.
Anyone can screw up, trained professionals in every field make mistakes.
That's quite the sensationalist take.
How did you travel from "doctors self injecting a covid vaccine" to "doctors may accidentally wipe out humanity?"
An incomplete vaccine can apply evolutionary pressure on the virus. From my understanding that's probably not so likely if just a few scientists use their own vaccine (someone more knowledgeable please correct me if I'm wrong), but may be a valid concern regarding some countries rushing through vaccines that have had limited testing. (eg. the Russia example)
I'm just repeating what I've heard, as I don't have specialist knowledge of this area, but one logical problem that occurred to me about this was whether the breadth of coverage of a vaccine is even testable. I would love to know how that gets tested in trials, because what I've heard about how vaccines are assessed has sounded a lot more primitive than anything that would indicate breadth of immunity.
A dozen or so scientists trialing a vaccine on themselves is of zero concern. And you can't take this one-off self-trialing and apply the same level of scrutiny to a government actor acting on millions of people.