An NIH-led study plans to assess transmission after vaccination by asking college students to delay vaccination for four months. To me, this seems neither necessary nor ethically justifiable, and the study design probably can’t even answer their question.https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/91832 …
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Also, we already have a a lot of data on vaccines blunting transmission, and I am not even convinced this study (testing close-contacts of college students when a lot of spread happens in mass events like parties etc.) will give us anything more precise than what we already know.
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College students are low-risk but they are not zero risk, and Long Covid is a (not that well-understood) thing of some prevalance (maybe less than reported but it is a thing. It is real). Dunno. We have existing answers, this won’t give us more precision imo, and it is a risk.
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Yes, I have no clue how this passed an ethics board. Someone is going to die because of this, or become disabled due to long Covid. Not most, but even one person is too many.
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It would have profound effects For global health if it was found that a single dosewas suitable for suppressing transmission significantly. Vaccine availability would improve dramatically.
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America has a whole country upstairs engaging in this experiment due to vaccine scarcity. Surely 30M or so participants is enough?
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Scarcity is not over just b/c groups have become eligible. There isn’t currently enough vaccine for everyone who wants a shot, and there probably won’t be until the end of May. These kids are just volunteering to put themselves at either the front vs back of the line.
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Given the 4-month duration, it seems that it will overlap a period when all students could have gotten the shot even at the back of the US line, but those shots will instead be used globally, and probably on higher-risk individuals.
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