Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
by nailer on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:38PM
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> Vaccines are designed to reduce likelihood of contracting disease and/or reduce the effects of disease if contracted.
You previously stated "(Vaccines being supposed to prevent Covid) was never the case." It sounds like you are claiming that vaccines prevented transmission of Covid at acceptable rates but you've provided no supporting arguments.
> Vaccines are never perfect barriers.
This is a straw man. Nobody in the conversation claimed vaccines were supposed to prevent Covid 100% of the time, just they were originally claimed to prevent people from contracting Covid and generally did not do so. I am sure you already aware of this and are projecting regarding your accusations of trolling.
Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
by jghn on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:11PM
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To be clear, your claim is that COVID vaccines did not reduce likelihood of infection? It's not clear exactly what point you're trying to make here. Were they completely ineffective? Not effective enough for your tastes? If the latter, what degree of likelihood reduction is your bar?
It's not hard to find literature demonstrating a reduction in infection rate [1]
Vaccines are never perfect barriers. It's better to think in terms of population scales. if enough people are vaccinated against a disease, then most of the people who would have contracted it will not. And that means a large reduction in the amount of that disease floating around, and that effect compounds.
For you to claim otherwise is either naïveté or trolling