| PeterB 2005-09-28, 9:42 am |
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David Wright wrote:
> In article <1127579280.621893.224010@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> PeterB <pkm@mytrashmail.com> wrote:
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> No, PeterB, you *don't* accept that they work. You made it quite
> clear that you think they work maybe 10% of the time. That was your
> number, remember? Since that's nowhere near enough to induce herd
> immunity, there'd be essentially no point to such a vaccine for most
> infectious diseases.
In the absence of randomized, controlled, long-term studies, no one
really knows. My guess is 10% on the low end, 50% on the high end.
You also have to define what you mean by "works."
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> If vaccines were really such a profit center, we wouldn't see
> companies getting out of the vaccine biz. But we do. It's really a
> problem, too.
It's going to continue to be a problem until the science of virology is
introduced into the vaccine business.
PeterB
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