• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    When it’s inevitably going to be a lot less than that, will you eat your words?

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      11 months ago

      The article suggests the vaccine prevents the recurrence of a specific cancer by 44% vs conventional treatment alone. So let’s be pessimists and say it only prevents recurrence by 22%. Should we eat our words that still 1/5th of people who’d otherwise die or suffer horribly from a recurring cancer now don’t?

      I think I would be more skeptical of the eventual price of this treatment and less about its effectiveness.