Rhonda Patrick· PhD
My first thought was, well, if this is...we need to know whether or not this is true because, if it is, it changes everything in a way, right? You don't want to make a virus, you know, more deadly to the unvaccinated.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
My first thought was, well, if this is...we need to know whether or not this is true because, if it is, it changes everything in a way, right? You don't want to make a virus, you know, more deadly to the unvaccinated.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And this is something people have been very concerned about with vaccines because the argument is that vaccines are preventing more...they're preventing people from dying from COVID-19, and therefore, they're going to allow the virus to have a chance to mutate into something that is more virulent.