Mikhail Varshavski: “Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent future…”

“The goal with medical interventions is to maximize the benefit limit to harms. However, in vaccines, it's a slightly different trade off. Why Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent future problems, so the risk-benefit needs to drastically favor the benefit. and minimize the harm, unlike a medication that is given to someone who's already very sick and might lose their life.” (50:05–50:11)

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