[escepticos] La vacuna de Oxford

[José María Mateos]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 01:44:56PM +0200, Carlos Lobo Cartón wrote:
>Hola,
>
>A la velocidad que va el desarrollo de la vacuna de la Universidad de
>Oxford, ¿cómo se van a estudiar los posibles efectos secundarios a largo
>plazo? No soy precisamente antivacunas (en esta lista no creo que haya
>alguno), ni sé qué se considera "largo plazo" en el caso de las vacunas (¿6
>meses, 1 año, 5 años...?), pero lo cierto es que me da un poco de reparo.
>He hecho una búsqueda rápida y no he sabido encontrar nada relevante...

El Financial Times precisamente trae hoy un artículo sobre este asunto. 
El enlace es éste, pero seguramente haya que tener una suscripción para 
leerlo: https://www.ft.com/content/89b90830-b301-4712-9655-49a1b5d94eee. 
Pego aquí abajo la parte relevante, que expresa preocupaciones bastante 
legítimas:

> A recent poll found that only half of Americans definitely plan to 
> take a coronavirus vaccine. Other polls said that between a quarter 
> and a third of the nation would never get inoculated.
>
> Whatever the true number, anti-vaccine campaigners are having a great 
> pandemic — as indeed is Covid-19. At least three-quarters of the 
> population would need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity.
>
> Infectious diseases thrive on mistrust. It is hard to imagine a better 
> Petri dish than today’s America. Some of the country’s “vaccine 
> hesitancy” is well grounded. Regulators are under tremendous pressure 
> to let big pharma shorten clinical trials. That could lead to 
> mistakes.
>
> Vaccine nationalism is not just about rich governments pre-ordering as 
> many vials as they can. It is also about winning unimaginably large 
> bragging rights in the race to save the world. Cutting immunological 
> corners could be dangerous to public health.

Saludos,

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