Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo...
by mlyle on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:09PM
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I'd volunteer. I'm 41 and about to be up for my turn as an educator. I feel OK about the mitigations in my classroom and my overall level of risk, and a bit guilty about getting my dose earlier than most; a 50-50 chance of delaying my second dose doesn't appreciably make the risk picture worse.
If my second dose was delayed, odds are I'd end up with better long term immunity, too, even though my risk in the intermediate period would be higher.
> It would be horribly unethical to give people a placebo who didn't volunteer.
No shit. That's why I said "enroll" -- this includes getting consent. I suspect finding 20k people to volunteer out of the ~10M dosed per week wouldn't be that hard.
If my second dose was delayed, odds are I'd end up with better long term immunity, too, even though my risk in the intermediate period would be higher.
> It would be horribly unethical to give people a placebo who didn't volunteer.
No shit. That's why I said "enroll" -- this includes getting consent. I suspect finding 20k people to volunteer out of the ~10M dosed per week wouldn't be that hard.