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Re:Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good? by john_artemis on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:50AM (#25026954)
Let's suppose we rush through a vaccine that turns out to cause fatal complications in 0.01% of the population, and we give it 90% of the population. Congratulations: you just killed more people to date then coronavirus has.

Might wanna check that math, dude.

Even with your preposterously deadly made-up vaccine, you’re only hitting about one month’s worth of COVID deaths.

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Re:Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good? by XorNot on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:22PM (#25027197)
Corrected the post above, but frankly, leaning straight on deaths wasn't my preference (just the numbers felt like they made the point clearly there). If you don't have the data, the reality is you don't have the data - you need thousands of test cases and time and monitoring to stand a hope of establishing it's not that lethal: The Oxford vaccine trial was paused in Phase II [1] when it looked "pretty good" because an extremely rare neurological condition showed up in two subjects.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitnes...

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