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Or, perhaps, the people who don't want to take it are choosing not to do so because they don't perceive the "reward" POTENTIAL protection from a virus that carries a less than 1/2 of 1% risk of death outweighs the risk (it will still be a largely unproven vaccine on a mass scale).

That is a decision that you have to weigh for yourself....I don't necessarily disagree with that decision. I'm of the mind that this thing needs to run its course anyway and that if we never have had any shutdowns, phases, etc we would be a helluva lot better off now than we are.

However, to suggest that the pharma companies are somehow lying to the public about safety or efficacy doesn't make any sense to me.

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Posted by Alt26

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Posted on 11/18/20 at 8:54 am to LSU316

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However, to suggest that the pharma companies are somehow lying to the public about safety or efficacy doesn't make any sense to me.

There is no question they want to develop an effective vaccination. One, that would probably be the most famous in the history of humanity (given the amount of attention to this virus). Failure would be a massive PR blow. But the financial fallout of such MAY be limited. The US government has agreed to broadly indemnify and hold harmless the manufacturers.

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To promote swift action by the private life sciences sector, the US Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) has conferred broad immunity on vaccine and therapy manufacturers for development activities relating to COVID-19. HHS’s immunity, issued as a Notice of Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the “PREP Act”), protects companies manufacturing, distributing, and administrating countermeasures against COVID-19, excepting only willful misconduct.

While understandable from pharma companies' perspective, that's also a BIG safety net for them to work with. It makes it a bit easier to make boastful (qualified) claims if you know you have a large degree of immunity conferred by congress.

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