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The Ethics of Vaccine Distribution and What to Know About the Variants
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Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 should be our highest priority as it will save more lives and help drive the virus to extinction. However, people should also be aware of the possibility of a vaccine driving the emergence of variants that could escape its protection.
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The development of narrowly-focused vaccines, such as the mRNA vaccines and the adenovector DNA vaccine, could create an evolutionary pressure that leads to the emergence of new virus variants that may no longer be effectively tackled by the vaccine.
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The development of narrowly-focused vaccines, such as the mRNA vaccines and the adenovector DNA vaccine, could create an evolutionary pressure that leads to the emergence of new virus variants that may no longer be effectively tackled by the vaccine. This was witnessed with break bone fever, a second case of dengue that can utilize the immune response from the first exposure to attack the body in new ways.
ChapterThe Ethics of Vaccine Distribution and What to Know About the Variants
Episode#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Vaccination at a high degree of efficacy and safety is important to lower the landscape of available victims for the pathogen and drive it to extinction.
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Vaccination at a high degree of efficacy and safety is important to lower the landscape of available victims for the pathogen and drive it to extinction. The probability of a more harmful strain being created is not 50%, but it still exists.