Liz O’Brien, a former pharmaceutical regulator who has also worked in drug development, warns that while regulatory bodies work “to the highest scientific rigour, a vaccine with an efficacy as low as 50 per cent is not a panacea and cannot form the basis of Ireland’s Covid strategy”.
The extent to which vaccines provide protection varies from person to person according to our make-up and immune response. The flu vaccine, for example, is generally less effective in older people with depleted immune systems. Some of the products in development build on existing vaccine platforms, she points out, making it easier to make an informed choice.
“We have concerns that a rushed ‘warp speed’ vaccine, which has not undergone long-term testing or testing for non-specific effects, may not meet the necessary safety standard,” the group said in a statement. “We have been accused of being far left and far right but we have no political agenda. We are committed to the provision of truth through the dissemination of legitimate scientific information,” she said.
Though many of the arguments made by the group seem familiar, and are certainly vaccine-sceptical, the group rejects the “anti-vaxxer” tag. “The term anti-vaccine is neither useful nor correct. It is often deliberately used to discourage and discredit those that dare to raise valid concerns over vaccine safety and efficacy.
“The problem is that people lose sight of how important vaccines have been for our societal health. Immunisation has made diseases such as polio or smallpox spectres of the past, so we don’t have this visceral reference point and [we] sometimes take vaccines for granted or become complacent.” As humans, most of us are prone to responding more to emotive or negative statements over sober analysis, and the anti-vaccine movement has effectively exploited this form of negativity bias, he says.
Under the existing protocols, these vaccines will not be required to either be safe or effective for the wider population.
Whoever is in charge of this vaccine section needs to be fired
No thank you, I prefer my vaccines in the upper arm area
The only good argument against the vaccine is the scientific one;- the fact that we can't build an immunity to the common cold so how could we to coronavirus? If they can figure out a way for us to do that (which is part of this process), then way-hey! Let's save lives!
To be fair this headline probably isn’t even accurate.. this media are vile fear peddling liars- that’s accurate
What about a good nights sleep as a preventative cure for flu from a presidential doctor?
Serious Swine-Flu vaccination court cases mean anything?
50 million people died of the Spanish flu and the average age was 27. Utterly incomparable to Covid-19
There is no comparison. Some people in 1918 had access to a paper or radio but you lot can and have bombarded all these people with so much fear and disinformation that some people genuinely believe they are in more danger of dying then they where 12 months ago. criminal
Disinformation everywhere. Thank god the Irish times is the one source we can all trust🙈
There is still no cure for the common cold 🤷
y seguimos para bingo
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