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New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall
(www.nytimes.com)
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Idiotic? Lol
Do you have a better strategy?
Make the updated vaccine available in August maybe?
There are plenty of vaccines that kids are required to have before entering a classroom. I’d say this one is a good candidate to add to that list.
Scientists look at the historical peaks from the last years, then they work back from that targeted date by adding in the many months needed to do trials, manufacturing, etc. Good thing is that, with mRNA technology, that time window is actually much better that it used to be for the older tech we’ve used for flu viruses in the past.
It’s never going to be perfect, but as long as you had last year’s booster, as the article mentioned, you’re much less likely to get seriously ill.
Predicting when next year’s peaks will drop is like predicting next years rainfall. You can get close, but it’s never going to be perfect. (Not the greatest analogy, since rain doesn’t mutate, and umbrellas don’t require months of human trials. Ohh well)
These are smart people working on this stuff. If they could have had an updated vaccine ready to go for any unexpected peak, they would.
I sure hope so.
This is kind of like saying the police should shoot the criminal before it commits a crime, and before they know who the criminal is.
It's not idiotic to do the best alternative when the ideal thing to do is impossible.
This is kind of like saying the police should shoot the criminal before it commits a crime, and before they know who the criminal is.
It's not idiotic to do the best alternative when the ideal thing to do is impossible.