Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show

Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by rwcarlsen on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:04PM (#25114055)

Doctors and nurses dying is a negligible concern IMO. Yet again - there have been a few highly publicized cases of things like this, but at scale it is just not something that happens at a non-negligible frequency. I have multiple family members in the medical field. None of them report any such issues - including my sister who is a doctor working in a covid unit in Indianapolis.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by tehjoker on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:57PM (#25115533)

I suspect that if the system gets overwhelmed, various processes will break down as they start accumulating tent cities outside the hospital and run out of equipment.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by djaychela on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:18PM (#25114245)

They may not die, but I'd bet a lot of them want to leave, or will have significant psychological trauma after dealing with this.

The UK NHS is recruiting at the moment, in the most visible campaign I can remember. I'm wondering if this is linked - certainly I wouldn't want to be faced with the upcoming winter in a medical role dealing with this, given what happened in March to June this year.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by Domenic_S on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#25114461)

Yep, NYT had an article about exactly this yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/health/Covid-doctors-nurs...

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by Marazan on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:38PM (#25116029)

That's because the system hasn't collapsed.

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