Flattening the Curve: Overrated?

[Jered]

Vaccines, can kill a certain percentage as well. Most notably, smallpox and yellow fever vaccine’s. It’s a matter of being worth the reduction in risk.

Which method of smallpox vaccination was that? We've had smallpox vaccinations since before the germ theory of disease.

[BDK]

The, relatively, current one. It was why there was so much resistance to vaccinating first responders right after 9/11.

(I was in undergrad, one of my profs had a friend who was working on improving it.)

As of ‘06, yellow fever vaccines were not given lightly. I wanted to get one, as I was, supposed, to be headed to an area where it was recommended. Baylor’s tropical disease center said there were not enough cases there, to give me the vaccine. They were more worried about TB.

There has been significant improvement in it, over the last 20 years.

[Langenator]

https://thedispatch.com/p/what-if-we-tr ... quarantine

Quarantine...you know, keep the sick and those who have been exposed to the sick isolated, not placing healthy people under near house arrest.

[randy]

As of ‘06, yellow fever vaccines were not given lightly. I wanted to get one, as I was, supposed, to be headed to an area where it was recommended. Baylor’s tropical disease center said there were not enough cases there, to give me the vaccine. They were more worried about TB.

There has been significant improvement in it, over the last 20 years.

I have Yellow Fever vaccine down as my only allergy on my medical records. When I received it in the mid 80 I just had time to drive home, undress and crawl into bed before passing out for a solid 12+ hours and not being able to do much for the rest of the day.

[Jered]

The, relatively, current one. It was why there was so much resistance to vaccinating first responders right after 9/11.

If you just go get cowpox, that should confer smallpox immunity. According to Wiki, we use a cowpox virus as a smallpox vaccine.

[MiddleAgedKen]

If you just go get cowpox, that should confer smallpox immunity. According to Wiki, we use a cowpox virus as a smallpox vaccine.

I think you're right. According to what I've read, that was Edward Jenner's original observation.

[Vonz90]

If you just go get cowpox, that should confer smallpox immunity. According to Wiki, we use a cowpox virus as a smallpox vaccine.

I think you're right. According to what I've read, that was Edward Jenner's original observation.

I believe there are two versions of the vaccine. The cowpox version gives less immunity so it was replaced by a stronger version based on smallpox once they knew how to do that.

[Vonz90]

A lot of guessing in that article. What I get from that and the other articles I can find, is that they just don't know.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... infectious

[Netpackrat]

A lot of guessing in that article. What I get from that and the other articles I can find, is that they just don't know.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... infectious

That's good news if it is true. I don't think it makes intentionally exposing people in the quest for herd immunity sans a vaccine a good idea, but it's definitely a good development. From the article I posted yesterday, it sounds as though Moderna's vaccine is proving to be safe thus far; now they just need to establish that it works.

[Termite]

I think this pretty much summarizes the whole thing.

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