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Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by amluto on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:30AM (#27323454)
We absolutely have enough data to rule out meaningful ADE. Study after study (the phase 3 trials and all the ongoing surveillance) indicates a massive reduction in the rate of severe infection among vaccine recipients.

Sure, one can quibble about whether maybe some of the very small number of people who got a vaccine more than a couple weeks before a severe COVID case had a form of ADE, but that’s like saying that we haven’t ruled out that seatbelts might kill people. In both cases, the risk that a protective measure harms the recipient is massively outweighed by the degree to which the protective measure protects the recipient.

Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by swader999 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:46AM (#27323505)
ADE doesn't really show up until years later with different strains and different virus.
Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by amluto on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:01AM (#27325667)
By that standard, you also can’t rule out disease-induced ADE, dengue style.

But the vaccine developers do know what they’re doing. IIRC, with SARS, a lot of research was done that suggested that antibodies against N might cause ADE but antibodies against S would not. If that carries over to COVID, then maybe one is better off with a vaccine than natural disease: the latter induces antibodies against N but the former does not.