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Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo... by dkural on Sunday February 14, 2021 @09:40PM (#26138466)
Maybe because HN is rational, and thus doesn't like the factual inaccuracies in your post? 1) There were no adjuvants used 2) Antibody response doesn't linearly correlate with protection. Many vaccines provoke a higher antibody response but much less efficacy compared to the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. 3) mRNA is an entirely new modality, it's not like people knew before-hand what would work, given point 2.

I don't think anyone is arguing that IF the booster is not needed, then we shouldn't double the vaccine supply. Consider the following risk however: There is such a thing called vaccine resistance. A weakly immunized patient becomes a training ground for novel variants of the virus that then starts spreading & vaccine doesn't work.

Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo... by Closi on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:37AM (#26140136)
I don’t think OP claimed any of this, at least in my reading.

All of these things are trade offs anyway - a weaker immunised patient might become a training ground for a variant, but a weakly immunised patient might also have a reduced risk of spreading which results in fewer cases and fewer chances for mutations.