The vaccine trials are not being tested for much that will benefit the general population.
The vaccine trials are only designed to show that there is a reduction of the symptoms or severity of covid-19 (someone only has covid-19 at the time that person becomes sick). Only about 200 people out of 30,000 are part of the final statistics -- because they show a positive PCR result.
The vaccine is only useful for those people who fear getting the worst symptoms and are willing to risk some sleepless nights and unknown effects of the vaccine in order to avoid the worst of symptoms if they get sick.
There is no testing for the reduction of the spread of the virus. As such, there is no benefit gained to society -- i.e. no reduction of the numbers who could be affected by the disease. If Jim takes the vaccine, there is nothing in the study to show that Jane is safer now.
We then have something like 15000 people who got the vaccine which only benefits 9 people who entered into the severe stages of covid-19 (whatever that may have been defined as).
To add to the problems, the long term effects are not known. This is especially important due to the use of a totally new technology for vaccines. (And we can note that the previous technologies applied to SARS vaccines had cause cytokine storm in the test animals -- a worse response to the wild virus than if they had not be given the vaccine.)
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Here's a partial quote from BMJ article
So, what benefit do we really have from these proposed vaccines?
How does the vaccine help society and help to open up the economy again?
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