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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A "detail" about the vaccine trials that the news conveniently over looked.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The Pfizer and Moderna trials, explicitly tracked ONLY symptomatic cases. This was a deliberate decision made when they prepared the testing protocols for multiple reasons. It was not an oversight:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">* It would take extra effort to have all of the 10's of thousands of subjects have regular testing.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">* Antibodies from the vaccine might be confused in the testing with antibodies from sickness.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">* Lastly, after the vaccine is widely used, if there are a lot of asymptomatic cases, it doesn't matter. Hospitals won't be over-worked. Vaccinated people won't be sick.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Probably the vaccines will prevent asymptomatic cases, but , at this point, there is no factual evidence. Expect that the health departments will want _everyone_ to keep wearing masks and doing the other things for a long time to come. </div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, December 26, 2020, 08:24:38 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>As I like to say, a well-debugged checklist will save your life, and <br>in these times of a soaring-in-a-bad-way pandemic, I found myself<br>talking with a family member, one especially vulnerable to COVID-19, <br>about the checklist routine we use to minimise risk. <br><br></div>
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