Re:Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
by JBSay on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:35AM
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Vaccines are not magic. Every treatment has potential downsides. That's why they need approval to weight the potential benefit/harm trade-off.
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From everything I've heard, these particular vaccines are pretty close, though.
90-95% reduction of risk.
Maybe even greater reduction of serious disease?
Most common side effect people seem to talk about is something like fatigue and fever for a day or two after a shot?
That's a pretty good tradeoff. Especially when you consider that getting large populations vaccinated pretty much ends the pandemic.