The Moderna dose is already more than 3x the dosage of the Pfizer ones. 100mcg vs 30mcg. Would be great if they could cut that down and still be effective.
The problem with the 50mcg dose is that there is justifiable concern that if you error on the side of low-dosing that the mass vaccination won't work and the public sentiment will turn against it. We'd rather see 95% efficacy with the 100mcg than risk the POSSIBILITY of 60% efficacy with the 50mcg dose. We literally have one shot (or two, pun intended) to get it right the first time. Only 4 months ago, most of the world hadn't even heard of mRNA vaccines or somehow believed it was micro-chipped by Bill Gates. Much of that nonsense has gone away because they're getting unbelievable efficacy that's higher than the traditionally-made vaccines from Astra-Zeneca and JnJ.
Of course this won't double the number of people vaccinated since Moderna doesn't cover 100%. But every little helps.
This is not accurate.
The AZ vaccine was only 10% effective in a study in SA. That's the only one that was shown to be vastly less effective.
The Pfizer vaccine is believed to be effective against the SA variant (though I think it used In Vitro studies) and there are lots of other vaccines on the way. We will get this under control but it will be a long slow process over several years.
We are. Most people, myself included, won't accept living like this forever. If vaccination fails and no treatment will be found, we'll expand healthcare capacity and accept that people will die.
I do get that it would never happen, because people would refuse to do it (their belief that it wouldn't work would, in a sublime irony, prevent it from working).
Substitute some other plan of coordinated action for the five weeks if you want. I don't care to argue about it, it's clear from New Zealand and Taiwan and so on that coordinated action works very well, if it is made to happen. It's also reasonably clear that it's cheaper than dealing with a raging pandemic.
It isn't unreasonable to ask for justification of your claim that it'd be so much cheaper to shut down the global economy or take 'severe' action at this time. So, thanks for providing absolutely nothing beyond some vague claims about ideal actions that won't happen?
https://www.vox.com/22273502/covid-vaccines-pfizer-moderna-j...
Eventually we'll just figure out prophylactic measures for those groups most at risk and leave it at that. It's what we do already with the "common cold", even though the cold can be very dangerous and deadly to some people.