Respectfully, I really disagree with this view. We should only start vaccinating widely when we are confident a vaccine is safe and effective. Why? A few reasons...
Widespread use of an unproven vaccine:
- Gives people a false sense of security if efficacy is really low
- Diverts resources away from other interventions (fixing testing!)
- Makes it harder to evaluate better vaccines
- Jeopardizes safety
- Erodes trust in the process
- Gives people a false sense of security if efficacy is really low
- Diverts resources away from other interventions (fixing testing!)
- Makes it harder to evaluate better vaccines
- Jeopardizes safety
- Erodes trust in the process
If you want an unproven vaccine, enroll in a clinical trial where you provide informed consent and are followed closely. Vaccine trials can be seen as a limited deployment of a potentially effective vaccine. But we cannot approve/endorse a product until we have the data in hand.
Actually, more on this tomorrow morning... I wrote something that is coming out! Stay tuned.
