Results of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine produced antibody response: The Lancet

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16 points·tsimionescu··6 comments

This is something i despise on HN. By normal standards, 10 points within 1 hour would've put this post on the front page.

See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378758, with 8 points on the 9th place at the first page, at the time of writing 59 minutes ago (this post having 10 points, 1 hour ago, on the 3rd page).

Here we have a peer-reviewed, credible, scientific report of a probably uncomfortable truth, and it has to hide on page 3.

In the spirit of HN I admit I probably have a biased opinion, but I don't want to incite a flamewar. I am sincerely interested in the reasons - @dang, would be nice to help here.

And sure, vote me down to oblivion. But at least provide a reason.

The algorithm is public knowledge. This post shows 2 hours ago now and 10 points while the one you linked still shows 1 hour (meaning it's a little younger) and is already at 37 points. If you look at the algorithm small differences early on have a much bigger impact on rank.

But this thread isn't the place to discuss this kind of thing so I'll leave the off topic at that unless you want to make a separate post to continue the conversation.

> Here we have a peer-reviewed, credible, scientific report of a probably uncomfortable truth, and it has to hide on page 3.

What truth is that? An early stage vaccine produced an antibody response? Don’t see why that should be so uncomfortable; it’s what you want them to do. Lots of vaccines have done so.

Link to the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

They should've named it Laika instead.

Are there methods of peeking at the long term safety of a vaccine without waiting for a long term?

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