Rick Reuben wrote:Josef K wrote:The vaccination strategy is called Herd vaccination or something and requires something like 90% of the population to be vaccinated for it to be effective.
If the vaccine itself is effective as claimed, then it's effective if 20, 40, 60, or 80% take it- for those who take it. If the vaccine is effective as claimed, then one person can take it, and
everyone else can not take it, and the one who does is protected- if the vaccine is effective as claimed./quote]
Isn't the idea for "herd vaccination" to isolate and eliminate pockets of the disease that still exist, in the hope that eventually the need for the vaccine will be gone, because there are no more existent pockets of the disease? Such as with smallpox? I'm not talking about existing in the lab, I mean in the world at large.
As I said above, it makes sense that there could be unintended consequences of immunization, which definitely be studied, but elimination of virulent diseases seems like a worthy goal.
I believe I've read elsewhere, that sometimes avoidance of some diseases can also bring it's own risks, although I don't remember where I read this or the exact context I read this in.
The benefits of vaccination definitely should be weighed against the risks, and then an informed decision should be made. The more information that is available regarding risks could only be a good thing in this decision.
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