Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:40PM
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Every vaccine (happy to get counter evidence) has negative side-effects, every injection is a risk. When you're injection multiple millions of your population on the off-chance it might help then you're going to get some very sick, or dead people.
At 200€ a time (plus administration costs, plus lost work hours of those you're injecting), for millions of people that's also a lot of wasted funds that could be put into medicines that are known to be effective for the people they're treating.
Why, for medicines that are highly available, that a doctor considers to be low risk, a sane adult can't just elect to pay for and take a medicine, that I am not sure of.
Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer
by Nifty3929 on Monday November 11, 2024 @05:19PM
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Yep - I'm not saying society OWES me the treatment - just that I should be able to get it if I want and am willing to pay for it.
I agree that we don't want all of society to be collectively paying for something that has large, clear costs, but dubious efficacy. Then again, COVID...
This is a beef I have with a lot of medical thinking: that if it doesn't work it would be bad to do it. But that's not true at all - many things are good to do, if there is some chance it will help, even if most of the time it does nothing. You do have to weigh other negatives like cost, pain, hassle, or unknown side effects.
But in general - if it might make me better and won't make me worse - then sign me up!