Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo...
by BurningFrog on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:01PM
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But it's not "blindly".
We know a lot about how vaccines and the human immune system works without going through the ritual of a full scale trial for every parameter tweak.
That knowledge strongly indicates that half doses will work just as well as the dose that happened to be chosen for the first trial.
Waiting several months for these studies have the major downsides that thousands of people die each day we wait. To make a rational decision, that potential benefit needs to be weighed against the potential risk, but that is usually left out of these arguments.
We know a lot about how vaccines and the human immune system works without going through the ritual of a full scale trial for every parameter tweak.
That knowledge strongly indicates that half doses will work just as well as the dose that happened to be chosen for the first trial.
Waiting several months for these studies have the major downsides that thousands of people die each day we wait. To make a rational decision, that potential benefit needs to be weighed against the potential risk, but that is usually left out of these arguments.