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Especially during a health emergency, there is tremendous legal precedent for mandates. Areas in NYC recently required a measles vaccine (or be fined) during an outbreak.Interesting read on whether Covid vaccines will be required. Short answer is not by the federal government, but maybe for individual workers or students. As long as the vaccine is under EUA it’s unlikely that any employer or school will mandate getting it. After full FDA approval some employers may require it (especially for healthcare workers or other higher risk jobs) and schools and colleges may require it as well. There’s a lot of precedent for those things. The states technically have the legal authority to mandate vaccinations. Over 100 years ago when smallpox was an issue the Supreme Court upheld the state of Massachusetts’ vaccine law.
Yes, some Americans may be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine but not by the federal government.
Some Americans will likely be mandated to get a coronavirus vaccine. But not anytime soon.www.yahoo.com
Yes, that was more recent than smallpox too. I think the only difference is the measles vaccine is widely accepted and ofn to be safe for years. I think once a Covid vaccine gets full approval it could very well end up being mandated in certain situations.
Exactly. I agree there won’t be mandates under EUA.
I don’t need a mandate. Stick me now
Do you need the biology lesson I wrote on Facebook that went low-grade viral (i.e. it spread as quickly as it does when properly wearing a mask)I don’t need a mandate. Stick me now
I already said this, but I have 2 arms so I’d take em both at the same time if offered
I probably have learned more about vaccines in the last 9 months than I ever wanted to
There’s no risk in this case (or in the case of most vaccines—the vaccine acts like a booster). The vaccine isn’t at all similar to the virus. We make our own spike proteins. There’s also no intention of testing everyone for antibody levels (those tests are not terribly accurate, anyway). So it’ll be a moot point.I probably have learned more about vaccines in the last 9 months than I ever wanted to
I am joking about getting both vaccines at once, but does anyone know what happens to someone who already had Covid? Can they get the vaccine still? Especially with the suspicion that a number of people had Covid and were asymptomatic or even in the Spring when testing was so rare that had symptoms but never got tested. I assume it can’t hurt you, but since you were already exposed would it create a more severe reaction or is it not an issue? I haven’t heard one way or the other but I also haven‘t seen any plans to exclude people who had Covid so I assume it’s safe.
New poll out shows 60% of Americans would get a vaccine if it was available today. This is up from 51% in Sept but down from 72% in May. Of the 40% who say they probably (21%) or definitely (18%) wouldn’t get the vaccine 46% say they would consider getting the vaccine after seeing others get it and more information is available. That adds 18% to the original 60% to get to a total of 78% of the population. With a vaccine that’s at least 90% effective that means 70%+ immune which should be good enough to reach herd immunity.
On distribution timing, the 60% ready to go now is just under 200M Americans so likely to take at least 4-6 months to vaccinate. By that time the other 40% will have plenty of data to go on. These numbers are likely to improve over time too as more people start to take the vaccine and there’s a public PR push to ensure people it’s safe and effective.
Intent to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Rises to 60% as Confidence in Research and Development Process Increases
Still about two-in-ten U.S. adults are “pretty certain” they won’t get the vaccine – even when there’s more information.
Very exciting. Let us know how it goes
Please stay away from Rudy until 10 days after dose 2. Then...stay away from Rudy.
This is now the 4th vaccine candidate to apply for review in Canada (Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca are the other 3). It is possible some specific US trial results could be available before the end of the year and the trial should reach the 2 month safety milestone some time in early January so if everything looks good it could have FDA EUA by the end of January. This is the vaccine that is testing both a single dose and 2 dose regiment in their trials and the single dose regiment looked promising in early trials. This one also does not need to be kept frozen.
Something about that seem wrong. They volunteered to be in the study to help the world out of this pandemic, but also to help themselves be somewhat protected and now because they volunteered they are going to be excluded from benefiting from the vaccine. Why not just sign up those that are against the vaccine and not planning to get it and study how they reacted to not having it. They made that decision anyway, they should have the courage of conviction strong enough to be helpful in perhaps proving themselves correct.In case anyone missed it, the committee voted 17-4 to recommend emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Covid vaccine for patients 16+. The 4 no votes were primarily concerned with 16 and 17 year olds being included in the EUA since the number of children in the trial was low and the risk for kids is not considered as serious.
FDA advisory committee recommends Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine authorization
Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech’s (BNTX) vaccine is one step closer to being distributed to health workers and nursing home residents, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory committee recommending its emergency use authorization (EUA) on Thursday.
One other piece of information that came out of this is that Pfizer plans to apply for full authorization by April or sooner and the FDA wants to keep the placebo group in tact (unvaccinated) until full approval.
Pfizer said they wanted to vaccinate the placebo group as soon as the vaccine was approved. The FDA wants them to wait for full approval (probably March or April). One fear is that people will just leave the trial and get the vaccine anyway if they are eligible. There’s nothing to stop them. That’s actually a bigger concern for the other trials. JnJ and AstraZeneca aren’t done yet but the fear there is their trial participants will jump ship and get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine when eligible rather than wait to find out if they got the vaccine or placebo and if the vaccine is as effective. If that happens they may be delayed in getting approval.
