On January 9, 2022 at 16:37, buzz said...
Here is an October 15, 2020 presentation outlining the Moderna vaccine development. Obviously we know more details at this point, but an interesting comparison in this early data is the vaccine's effectiveness compared to natural immunity developed during infection.
Another point to note is how quickly a vaccine candidate was developed after the DNA sequence was available. Compare this to the historic development schedule. Now, we have much better tools at our disposal and should be careful when comparing "traditional" (old) methods with current technology.
Buzz you are right that the speed of development is amazing and unprecedented. The one thing we don’t have in this development is assessing issues over time - and it may take 2, 5, 10 years or much more to see if there are long term effects.
And it has always been up to the patient to assess side effects when deciding whether or not to take any medicine. You probably know this is a key tenet of th Nuremberg Code.
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The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”
A doctor friend of which I have referred earlier indicated that in medical school, this was absolutely drilled into every student. To give a patient a drug without consent, even if it may be life-saving in nature, is considered to be “inflicting harm” and shall never be done.
