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Originally Posted by royalblue
How long term should the data be for your liking. When working age people got access to the vax (admittedly earlier in the US than here), millions of high risk old people had already become data points. The AZ complications among young people were also flagged very quickly and accordingly they stopped giving it to youngs. If you want to call those people guinea pigs ok, but people talk about waiting for long-term effects like there's a chance they'll suddenly grow a third arm a year after the shot (or anything else, really). That type of long term effect only exists in people's minds, with any vaccine.
I said long term data meaning both how well the vaccine works and any possible long term effects.
We are guinea pigs.
That was my choice but it's it what we are.
If a few months was normal to determine how well vaccines worked and how safe they were then that's what we would always do.And we obviously don't do that.
In January we thought they worked pretty well.
By March or April it was they worked even better than we could have hoped for in testing and breakthroughs were extremely rare.
Now we see they don't work nearly as well or last nearly as long as we would have hoped.
I think they're still a net positive overall and a no brainer for the old/high risk and not so clear cut for younger people.