Pentagon will require all troops to get Covid vaccine by Sept. 15
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I got vaccinated against a lot of maladies while in the service, and while I still have some lasting nerve damage I accept it as part of the cost of protecting the group.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
Is nerve damage a common side-effect from military vaccinations?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
EU lists rare nerve disorder as side-effect of J&J COVID-19 vaccine : https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
All vaccines have the occasional rare side effect; Guillian-Barré is one of the more well known ones, and people get it from the flu shot each year. It's also quite clear the COVID vaccines haven't killed 600k in the US like the disease has, though. As with any other health intervention, the cost/benefits have to be weighed; they have been continue to be with regards to the vaccines.
Why do you assume that? What risks do you believe vaccines to have and not have?
Social distancing directives have proven to be effective when enforced, but time and time again we are seeing outbreaks when and where those restrictions are ignored. For all of the fears about possible side effects of the vaccine, we seem to be getting away from the original issue:
For every day that we delay, more people will die.
Suggest we're just making up what authoritative idea would be considered a precedent.
Republics or Representative Democracies or whatever can and do authoritative things. Typically you regulate the intermediary instead of regulate the individual, ie school admission requiring it, military service requiring it, travel requiring it etc.
EDIT: I found the answer - "Personnel unable or unwilling to do that will be required to wear a mask, physically distance, comply with a regular testing requirement and be subject to official travel restrictions" [1]
[1] Statement by Jamal Brown, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary, on COVID-19 Vaccinations https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/27...
It adds to the list of required vaccines for service members, in case people have forgotten that there are plenty of other vaccines people receive for generally non-fatal ailments (many of which they already received themselves!). Also they want to wait for FDA approval, assuming it happens in September, but allow themselves the discretion to require it before then.
> Over more than 3 decades, promising lipids studied in the lab often failed to live up to their potential when tested in animals or humans. Positively charged lipids are inherently toxic, and companies struggled for years before landing on formulations that were safe and effective. [0]
Lots of other details in this article of the problems they had over several decades finding lipids that worked and weren't toxic, wouldn't accumulate in the liver, etc.
The lipids used in the covid vaccines don't go back that far:
> The first time the FDA approved the use of lipid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system was in 2018, when the agency approved the first siRNA drug, Onpattro.[56] Encapsulating the mRNA molecule in lipid nanoparticles was a critical breakthrough for producing viable mRNA vaccines, solving a number of key technical barriers in delivering the mRNA molecule into the host cell. [1]
So they had something approved in 2018 for shorter siRNA payloads, but had to scramble since then to figure out something that would handle an mRNA payload.
[0] https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-delivery/Without-li...
The right criterion: “Less dangerous than the disease itself”.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108657
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...