THE OCTOBER VACCINE SURPRISE In sum, this explains why we can get a vaccine for COVID-19 approved by the U.S. FDA
case fatality rate of 50%... It kills quickly, and it spreads broadly. Compared with that, severe side effects are acceptable... 18% of vaccine recipients reported joint pain and 9% reported new arthritis symptoms from the vaccine. None of the controls reported any extra arthritis symptoms. So while these are serious side effects, they’re also better than dying. For COVID-19, which is a lot less fatal in the aggregate – running at about a 2.5% case fatality rate – we can’t accept as high of a threshold for severe side effects. And yet we are seeing serious side effects in some early-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials...
for emergency use by October 20, 2020. But it leaves a major question unanswered: What are the side effects that someone would face when they get this vaccine? See, when doctors talk side effects for vaccines, they are weighing the side effects against the disease the vaccine is designed to prevent. For example, look at the newly approved Ebola vaccine... Made by pharma giant Merck, it won FDA approval in December 2019. Ebola can have a
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