First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
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#2I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#3A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#4A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
While I would certainly hope that it prevents spread too, I believe that the vaccine is only proven to prevent Covid-19 (the disease), and not to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes it).
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#5A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
The vaccine isn't proven to prevent spread.
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#6A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
Because stopping the elderly from overwhelming the health infrastructure needs to be step 1.
ICU beds are extremely expensive.
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#7I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
not surprising. i am shocked people aren’t hawking fakes on the dark net yet.
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#8A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
Because stopping the elderly from overwhelming the health infrastructure needs to be step 1. ICU beds are extremely expensive.
At this age, you don't get admitted to an ICU bed
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#9A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
It's not yet known whether the Pfizer vaccine prevents an infected person from transmitting the infection to other people [1]. But there is robust evidence that is does prevent an immunised person from becoming ill.
Re: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
#10A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
I believe the vaccine has not been showed to reduce transmission, it's been shown to reduce impact, i.e. she's less likely to die if someone visits her, so great for her, and her families, well-being.