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Originally Posted by Envitro
The most recent admissions by executives from Pfizer don't give me much hope as someone that took the vaccine, under the assumption that it would protect my family and I, that any future endeavours like this would get me to take that risk again (obviously weighed against the risk of whatever next virus/pandemic we're up against).
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I hear this one from covid skeptics at work all the time. "The covid vaccine didn't produce sterilizing immunity and prevent transmission and therefore vaccine mandates were useless."
Except that
1) Vaccine mandates increased uptake of the vaccine (reducing severe outcomes and overflow of hospitals)
2) Vaccines need not produce 100% sterilizing immunity, even if it only somewhat reduces the viral load that may be enough to reduce transmission.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...the-pandemic1/
https://theconversation.com/coronavi...problem-152204
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...870-9/fulltext
3) And I really wish this didn't have to be said, but calling it an experimental vaccine does not make it an experimental vaccine.
4) Even if it was an overreach, it was (is?) a global pandemic with imperfect information. Get over it.