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Re: Oxford university vaccine trial paused after participant falls sick
by
squatz1
on 10/09/2020, 20:06:17 UTC
Sigh. People who don't like vaccines (not saying you OP) will look for anything and everything to try to discredit them. This is probably one of the first times that all of us are exposed to watching every single step in the process of a vaccine. This is a relatively common thing to happen, and it's really not cause for concern.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/dr-fauci-says-pause-on-trial-is-not-uncommon-at-all-after-major-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-placed-on-hold.html

Fauci (an expert in infectious diseases) says that this is totally not uncommon. So, why does everyone have to freak out now?

@squatz1 I agree with you that we should not discredit them at such an important stage of their testing, rather we all need to be patient and give them some more time to work on what went wrong in their testing.

Also I can understand why people are freaking out, because they’re scared for their life’s, and their most common fear is what happens if they take the vaccine and suffer horrible side effects from it, and to be honest those fears are rational.

However just because we’re scared we should not rule them out, because a proper vaccine is the need of the hour as no country’s economy can afford more lockdowns due to lack of covid vaccine.

Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/03/coronavirus-vaccine-global-race/

I mean it does totally make sense to be a bit nervous. But then again, this has only been around for less then a year and we shouldn't set such a high bar for when the vaccine is going to be finished. We shouldn't also try to rush anything out the door or, on the other end of things, discredit things EARLY for no reason.

Also if you're scared about taking a vaccine, don't take it. I highly doubt this is going to be mandatory right off the bat, it's going to be available (after tons of testing) and then people can use it if they want. I can see it being mandatory after months of it working with no scares.

Though the conspiracy theorist will take this one for a ride, lol.