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I'm a bit annoyed that we could stop this cold with a vaccine that sorta already exists, but didn't because we thought it was low-risk. It might be, or it might be a repeat of the big nothing that was H1N1 in 2009, but flu shots are cheap, so I'd rather pay $50 and not take the risk.

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Any action that requires most of the human population to do or receive something is certainly not easy or cheap or uncomplicated

Flu shots are much less effective than you think, the average across all ages is below 50%.

Yeah but if H5N1 strains have a high fatality rate, a 50% effective vaccine is a big deal.

Of course, but parent is saying we shouldn't worry about H5N1 because a vaccine exists...

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