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		gizmondo on Sept 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? I happened to read it already. Are you willing to bet that the tweaked Moderna vaccine (the trials of it was announced, right?) shows worse efficacy than the original? Odds 51:49 in your favor, null hypothesis of the same efficacy is a tie. That's generous I think, if nobody knows. If not - why not?

Zpalmtree on Sept 15, 2021 [–]

Are you arguing we should just assume the new changes are good and roll them out without testing?

gizmondo on Sept 15, 2021 | [–]

Yes, without large scale randomized efficacy trials. That's what we do with the flu.

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