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>Missing context. There is no conclusive evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent people spreading the disease. Scientists are not yet sure of how the vaccine affects transmission – and this is currently undergoing research. People are still required to follow restrictions even after vaccination to account for this uncertainty.
source: reuters January 18th, 2021.
Question for /sci/, when a company creates a vaccine, do they or do they not intend to know how a vaccine fully works? Should they study the level of immunity as well as other key variables (transmissible, effective against mutations, etc) before mass production? I'm not well-versed in vaccine history, but I imagine the only real way of knowing how it works is to release it to the general population on a mass scale.
From a point of science, should the burden of proof be on laypeople to prove that vaccines do not decrease transmissions? Also, should worries of speculative, negative long term effects have any weight in scientific and public discourse?
>Missing context. There is no conclusive evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent people spreading the disease. Scientists are not yet sure of how the vaccine affects transmission – and this is currently undergoing research. People are still required to follow restrictions even after vaccination to account for this uncertainty.
source: reuters January 18th, 2021.
Question for /sci/, when a company creates a vaccine, do they or do they not intend to know how a vaccine fully works? Should they study the level of immunity as well as other key variables (transmissible, effective against mutations, etc) before mass production? I'm not well-versed in vaccine history, but I imagine the only real way of knowing how it works is to release it to the general population on a mass scale.
From a point of science, should the burden of proof be on laypeople to prove that vaccines do not decrease transmissions? Also, should worries of speculative, negative long term effects have any weight in scientific and public discourse?
