Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous (2015)

Re:Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous (2015) by rich_sasha on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:10AM (#27930817)

I'm not anti-vac in any shade, but I do find it interesting. Things like this should give us pause for thought, it is the first time in world history we are trying to control a new virus with vaccines. Could we end up in the same place?

Sounds like no, but I'd find comfort in knowing someone actually thought about it, as opposed to waved their hands over it and said "nah, anti-vaxxer nonsense".

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Re:Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous (2015) by gibba999 on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:07PM (#27932261)

I'm vaccinated and think vaccines should be mandatory -- so I'm pretty extreme pro-vax -- but I do think we're mismanaging vaccines.

A lot of what we're doing seems to be analogous to an incomplete course of antibiotics.

I was pretty optimistic about vaccine+N95 masks+modest social distancing. On the other hand, mixing vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals with no protection seems like a recipe for vaccine-resistant strains.

What's interesting is the hypothesis that strains will become resistant to vaccines by becoming more virulent -- where unvaccinated people die in droves, while vaccinated ones have a "normal" infection.

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