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If you are older or have older family members or friends, please read this before insisting these older people take the vaccine. (Don't know if you have heard this other one: if you have food allergies or allergy to some meds, don't get it. This is for all age people.) Back to the elderly:
"Out of a panel of 14 CDC vaccine advisers, a lone doctor said no."
The doctor is Dr. Helen "Keipp" Talbot, of Vanderbilt University.
(I posted some of this article below.)
Dr. Talbot voted no because there is no study of what happens when older people take it. Remember, nursing homes will be first to get it along with nursing staff. "The vote to recommend long-term care residents be among the first to receive Covid-19 vaccinations was not unanimous. Out of a panel of 14 CDC vaccine advisers, a lone doctor said no."
"Odd woman out, I guess," Dr. Helen "Keipp" Talbot, of Vanderbilt University, told her colleagues. "I still struggle with this. This was not an easy vote."
"Talbot was worried about whether the vaccine would even work in such frail, vulnerable patients. Even more, she worried about how it might look if the vaccine failed in that group, or how it would affect public perception if residents died soon after getting the vaccine."
"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."
Article also says: "On the other hand, these are the people worst hit by the pandemic. They make up 40% of all deaths so far."
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_f57704265a0db9708053b6eb5320dd44
