Why vaccinate our most frail? Odd vote out shows the dilemma

Two Old Women At Window

CNN beginning to pre-indoctrinate people not to be surprised if death occurs within a day or two of vaccination.

“We would not at all be surprised to see, coincidentally, vaccination happening and then having someone pass away a short time after they receive a vaccine, not because it has anything to do with the vaccination but just because that’s the place where people at the end of their lives reside,” Moore said.

“One of the things we want to make sure people understand is that they should not be unnecessarily alarmed if there are reports, once we start vaccinating, of someone or multiple people dying within a day or two of their vaccination who are residents of a long-term care facility. That would be something we would expect, as a normal occurrence, because people die frequently in nursing homes.”

(Tom: George Orwell predicted the double speak so brilliantly! They got the vaccine then died but the vaccine didn’t do it, they were going to die anyway.)

“There’s a question about the direct benefit of the vaccine, if given to people who live in those facilities, because we haven’t studied how well it works in that group yet.”

It’s this uncertainty that led Talbot to vote no.

“I have spent my career studying vaccines in older adults. And we have traditionally tried a vaccine in a young healthy population and then hoped it works in our frail older adults,” she told the committee ahead of her vote. “And so we enter this realm of ‘we hope it works, and we hope it’s safe,’ and that concerns me on many levels.”

(Tom: The illogics of this rollout beggar belief.)
“Right now, we just don’t have the data to know how well the vaccines will work in these folks, and so we’re going to need to be cautious at first because we know they are by far the most vulnerable to severe illness and death from Covid. We’re going to play it really carefully until we know for sure that these vaccines will really be effective at protecting them,” Moore said.

(Tom: The vaccine has not been tested in a group of elderly people to see if it increases mortality yet they are rolling it out to everyone straight away. Yep, that’s cautious all right!)

“Moore said not to expect a change in policy out of the gate.”

(Tom: So, despite not having been tested on the elederly and rolling it out to everyone, they will not quickly assess the statistics to determine ramifications! Smacks head. This level of stupidity is absolutely astounding!)

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/04/health/coronavirus-vaccine-acip-nursing-homes-question/index.html