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GGG · 07-09-2010, 10:46 PM

Would you get the Aids vaccine and would enough people get it to create herd immunity.

Not to get all anti-vaccine but there is some small risk associated with getting them be it 1/10,000 or 1/1,000,000. Combine that with parents unlikely to get their kids the vaccine and married couples having to deal with very bad optics if they got the vaccine so likely you wouldn't have wide spread adoption of the vaccine. Especially if this vaccine is only about 80% effective would it make a difference to the average person in the public? Essentially you have your single people aged 20 to 30 who may get it.

In high risk groups like prisons and Drug users you would definately reduce aids but given that people who get the vaccine would no longer be getting tested and likely be less dilagent in condom use when the vaccine did fail you would get larger outbreaks.

So in Africa this would be a great advancement in North America I'm not sure you would see an impact outside of highrisk groups.

07-09-2010, 10:46 PM	#37
GGG Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: California Exp:	Would you get the Aids vaccine and would enough people get it to create herd immunity. Not to get all anti-vaccine but there is some small risk associated with getting them be it 1/10,000 or 1/1,000,000. Combine that with parents unlikely to get their kids the vaccine and married couples having to deal with very bad optics if they got the vaccine so likely you wouldn't have wide spread adoption of the vaccine. Especially if this vaccine is only about 80% effective would it make a difference to the average person in the public? Essentially you have your single people aged 20 to 30 who may get it. In high risk groups like prisons and Drug users you would definately reduce aids but given that people who get the vaccine would no longer be getting tested and likely be less dilagent in condom use when the vaccine did fail you would get larger outbreaks. So in Africa this would be a great advancement in North America I'm not sure you would see an impact outside of highrisk groups. Last edited by GGG; 07-09-2010 at 10:49 PM.