Stardate 20011213.1225 (On Screen): This article states that the use of weak vaccines could have the effect of strengthening diseases and making them more virulent. I think that this argument is specious, because it assumes that we take our one shot and then never work on the problem again. They're presenting
a false dilemma. Either, we do nothing at all and accept certain level of deaths from the disease, or we use the weak vaccine and accept a short term drop but a long term rise. They're ignoring the third case of developing a series of vaccines over time, which results in an overal lower level of deaths from the disease. Why can't we use a weak vaccine now while we work on a better one?
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