Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
by jnurmine on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:27PM
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I'd guess part of the hesitation is due to the Pandemrix-caused narcolepsy cases during the A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009. It was just 11 years ago, still fresh on people's minds.
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Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
by eznzt on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:24PM
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Is the narcolepsy caused by Pandemrix permanent or just temporary?
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
by jnurmine on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:51PM
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Permanent, unless someone innovates medical therapy to fix the damage.
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
by lawn on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:46PM
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Afaik it seems to be permanent.
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
by petertodd on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:34PM
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It also doesn't help that the H1N1 vaccines came too late to do much good: while Pandermix was just one of many vaccines, and the only one I'm aware of known to cause problems, in most places they hardly made a difference because infections had already peaked by the time they were distributed widely. Eg here in Canada, I've seen estimates that vaccines reduced H1N1 deaths by about 5% at best. H1N1 still infected around 20-30% of the entire world population, and Canada was no different. A significant % of people were already immune, so natural herd immunity is the main thing that stopped it.
Given how fast COVID-19 appears to be spreading even in places with strict lockdown, I won't be surprised if it turns out that vaccines don't actually make much difference with it either.