>> OT Why has there been so much concern that the vaccine agasinst Corona
>> might subdue symptoms but still leave people contagious?
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>> Measles, German measles, mumps, polio, are all contagious viruses and
>> when vaccines came out against them, it was assumed the vaccine would
>> wipe out the disease. And it did. I heard no talk about people still
>> being contagious.
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>> Why would this virus be different from the other viruses?
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>> Are they just being super-cautious?
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>> BTW, I never even heard of Hib:
>> #7. Hib
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>> Hib (or its official name, Haemophilus influenzae type b) isn?t as
>> well-known as some of the other diseases, thanks to vaccines. Hib can do
>> some serious damage to a child?s immune systems and cause brain damage,
>> hearing loss, or even death. Hib mostly affects kids under five years
>> old. Before the vaccine, over 20,000 kids were infected each year.
>> That?s about 400 yellow school busses worth of kids! Of these kids, one
>> in five suffered brain damage or became deaf. Even with treatment, as
>> many as one out of 20 kids with Hib meningitis dies. Get your child
>> vaccinated to help them beat the odds!
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>Previous vaccines have been tested for years before full release, so
>they had time to find out these things. We will know more with time, but
>they expect similar results to earlier vaccines.
This is a RNA agent, not the traditional live or dead virus vaccine. I am not sure how much previous experience will apply. Let's keep a good thought and hope we don't regret the lack of long term testing.