Merck Scraps COVID Vaccines; Says It’s More Effective To Get The Virus And Recover – Summit News

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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

But we must also remember that the FDA didn't do Phase III testing on the elderly with this vaccine, so we have no idea what the adverse reaction rate in the elderly is.

Originally ventilator use was common to combat covid, but it was figured out eventually that it was killing more people than it was saving.

I just hope that the negative reaction rate in the elderly is lower than the covid rates themselves. I hope the cure isn't worse than the disease. But we'll know in a few months or years I guess... I'm certainly going to wait until more evidence comes in before I take it myself.

[–]FediNetizen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They did do testing on seniors in their Phase III trials, but you're right in that there wasn't sufficient focus on the results for the most elderly that are at the highest risk.

"Of the 21,720 people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine rather than the placebo in its phase 3 trial, 7,971 or 37% were over age 55. Pfizer’s study did not include a breakout for those 65 and older. In the Moderna phase 3 trial, of the 15,181 volunteers given the vaccine rather than the placebo, 3,763 or 25 percent were older than 65." The quote was taken from this article about the widespread deployment of vaccines to Florida's senior population

And it's also worth mentioning this paper - Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines in older people

With regards to the concern about rates of adverse reactions to the vaccines, widespread inoculation started back in December, and many of those vaccines went to elderly people. If the elderly were reacting poorly to it, we would have heard about it by now.

[–]Bigs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Didn't one of the Scandinavian countries recently declare they were going to stop giving the rna vaccines to the elderly, as they were having too many bad outcomes?

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If so, that's news to me. I would have figured /s/Coronavirus would be celebrating if something like that happened, but none of the top articles from the last month seem to mention anything about it. Where did you hear that?