Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine

Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by injidup on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:13PM (#26692480)

Nonsense. There are risks with all interventions and the ethics are clear. There are known adverse affects to all immunizations ( no not autism ) and that the odds of it happening is low enough for any individual that it is considered that the general benefit to the community is higher than the cost to the rare poor sod who gets a bad roll of the dice. But that's just reality. No intervention is without risk and anybody telling you they have an intervention without risk is selling homeopathic water drops.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by xboxnolifes on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:42PM (#26692657)

Maybe I misread your comment or the parent, but I don't think this has anything to do with what they said.

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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by injidup on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:38AM (#26695402)

The comment I was replying to said.

> I think the concern is that medical ethics say (roughly) you cannot give anyone a treatment which, based on odds, harms them

This is clearly not true as we do medical interventions all the time that we know may harm the patient on the assumption that most people will gain a benefit. It's naive and dangerous to spread the idea that the good medical intervention is a 100 percent safe one. That's the pitch of the "alternative" medical industry and only possible for 100 percent ineffective medication.

There is no effect without side effects and no benefit without risk.

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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by xboxnolifes on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:35AM (#26707975)

What are these medical interventions we do with patients that provide them with outcomes that are statistically more unsafe than inaction?

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