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A comment on Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity. Parent comment
I don't believe that it's firmly established that natural immunity is as good as 2 shots or natural immunity + 1 shot.
We bought more than enough doses to vaccinate everyone and downsides are small.
Consider a population of 10 million with natural immunity. Let us suppose that vaccination with Pfizer will kill between 0 and 1.
Suppose that 1% would fall ill and 1% of those die. That is 1000 preventable deaths.
It needn't be very much of a difference just 1/100th of 1% to vastly outweigh the risk of a very safe vaccine.
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I don't believe that it's firmly established that natural immunity is as good as 2 shots or natural immunity + 1 shot.
We bought more than enough doses to vaccinate everyone and downsides are small.
Consider a population of 10 million with natural immunity. Let us suppose that vaccination with Pfizer will kill between 0 and 1.
Suppose that 1% would fall ill and 1% of those die. That is 1000 preventable deaths.
It needn't be very much of a difference just 1/100th of 1% to vastly outweigh the risk of a very safe vaccine.