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What is considered acceptable risk?  If I understand you correctly (and I probably don’t) you are saying a vaccine that had an increased risk of a serious disease for 1.6 out of a million people is considered unacceptable.  Is that true?

For a vaccine that is going into healthy people, the standard is very high.  In the face of a widespread pandemic with a mortality rate of 0.5%, it may be lower, at least until the threat recedes a bit, but I expect the bar to be fairly high.

BC

[BostonCard]

What is considered acceptable risk?  If I understand you correctly (and I probably don’t) you are saying a vaccine that had an increased risk of a serious disease for 1.6 out of a million people is considered unacceptable.  Is that true?

For a vaccine that is going into healthy people, the standard is very high.  In the face of a widespread pandemic with a mortality rate of 0.5%, it may be lower, at least until the threat recedes a bit, but I expect the bar to be fairly high.

BC