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0 pointsellopoppit3y ago0 comments

>COVID vaccines have been far more extensively studied than any other vaccine has ever been

By what measure?

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By all measures - population size, number of studies, number of meta-studies, number of phase 1/2 studies. Number of doctors, number of skeptics. Number of papers.

ellopoppitOP3y ago

>Population size

By population size, do you mean the number of people in the general public who have taken the various covid vaccines under the FDA EUA?

littlestymaar3y ago

By pretty much every imaginable measures: number of papers, number of researchers, sample size, size of the control group exposed to the disease …

The only lacking aspect is the long term effects, because by definition we don't have long term hindsight (but no vaccine has it before being commercialized, by definition).

ellopoppitOP3y ago

>The only lacking aspect is the long term effects, because by definition we don't have long term hindsight (but no vaccine has it before being commercialized, by definition).

I'm not sure I understand this sentence... are you claiming no other vaccine had more data on long term effects prior to commercialization than the covid vaccines?

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InTheArena3y ago

By all measures - population size, number of studies, number of meta-studies, number of phase 1/2 studies. Number of doctors, number of skeptics. Number of papers.

ellopoppitOP3y ago

>Population size

By population size, do you mean the number of people in the general public who have taken the various covid vaccines under the FDA EUA?

littlestymaar3y ago

By pretty much every imaginable measures: number of papers, number of researchers, sample size, size of the control group exposed to the disease …

The only lacking aspect is the long term effects, because by definition we don't have long term hindsight (but no vaccine has it before being commercialized, by definition).

ellopoppitOP3y ago

>The only lacking aspect is the long term effects, because by definition we don't have long term hindsight (but no vaccine has it before being commercialized, by definition).

I'm not sure I understand this sentence... are you claiming no other vaccine had more data on long term effects prior to commercialization than the covid vaccines?

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