‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 African countries
‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 African countries
An initial 18m doses will be delivered over the next two years to combat a disease that kills nearly half a million children annually
ahhh, finally a vaccine they can legitimately say Bill Gates wanted to make
24On the continent, we are super sceptical of Bill Gates
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This is incredible news! Bravo to the scientists and researchers making it possible.
14Great news! Thanks for sharing OP!
When I was in college I had a Zoology professor who mentioned, on multiple occasions, that Malaria had killed '50% of all humans since man's inception".
In fact, on 2 different exams, we had to draw the lifecycle of the genus plasmodium (the thing that causes malaria). Crazy.
14Forced car dependency kills more people than malaria. Same with covid (temporarily) and climate change.
-1I read it as schrodinger’s asshat lol
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That's some damn good news
I'm looking forward to the news that malaria is extinct
It probably won't happen in my life time, but the rarer it becomes the better
12Hell yeah dude, go science.
Uh...unfun fact, It's estimated that 80% of people to ever exist have died due to Malaria so, fuck mosquitoes, fuck Malaria and fuck yeah science!
7Mosquitos are why I will never visit Finland in the summer again! Horrid little fuckheads. Maybe one day we can engineer them to exist without eating humans.
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That's great news! One upside of Covid is that it increased funding toward vaccine development strategies. Hopefully we'll get even more effective vaccines for other hard to treat diseases.
11This looks to be the safety and efficacy study below, no mention of potential side effects though.
3"The vaccine, named RTS,S/AS01, was declared “safe and effective” in reducing deaths and severe illness after being given to 1.7 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019."
AFTER? So they gave the vaccine to 1.7 million African children BEFORE they confirmed that it was "safe and effective"?
I'm hoping that was a reporting error, not the truth.
-2First step is testing safety. Then you give it to a much larger group to establish the level of effectiveness, since you need a lot of data to establish that. After the effectiveness is established you would declare it safe AND effective.
SMH. Can’t imagine how that’s not obvious.
7It seems a lot of people misunderstand that being declared "safe" doesn't mean it's effective and being declared "effective" doesn't mean it's safe.
For example: water is safe, but it's not an effective treatment for a heart attack. And dying is an effective treatment for heartburn (it'll stop it) but it sure as hell ain't safe.
It's important to have both.
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It's the WHO who declared this safe in this writing. Obviously, there have been other authorities that approved the vaccine before injecting it to that million people.
5Whoa that’s the first one of those I’ve seen on lemmy
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My comment was removed by a mod. I thought lemmy was all about freedom. Fuck this place there already is cencored forum - it's reddit. Suck ass mod.
-11I thought lemmy was all about freedom.
Some places are moderated, some are not. Depends on the individual community and instance. See sidebar on the right.
3I was pondering how corporations within capitalism operate as communist dictatorships internally. I was wondering why it doesn’t bother me as much as a country operating as a communist dictatorship.
And the answer is: you can leave that corporation and go to another one any time.
Whereas countries that become communist dictatorships have to put up walls to keep people from leaving.
So the real horror isn’t the communist dictatorship. It’s the communist dictatorship you can’t leave.
Kinda like bdsm I guess. Consent is everything. “Take everything I produce and redistribute it as you see fit, Daddy!”
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I love how "safe and effective" are inside quotes. Same thing was said about covid vaccines but they definitely were not effective.
-24I’d encourage you to have another look at the data.
15this has to be a troll. this has to be a troll. please say there arent people like this on lemmy.
11It's a quote. You put a quote in, wait for it, quotation marks.
8Lol what the hell are you on about, you must be a troll.
6I'd argue the other way around, covid vaccines were effective, but not safe. Lot's of people have suffered complications, but they did reduce the risk from covid itself.
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