The vast majority of Trump supporters who are at significant risk of severe COVID-19 disease will eagerly get vaccinated, if a reasonably well-proven vaccine becomes available. President Trump has been continuously emphasizing the importance of developing a vaccine quickly, and when one is approved in the US, he'll get it and tell everybody he got it.
However, the announcement scheduled for this evening has very specifically been described as a major *therapeutic" breakthrough, so I very much doubt it will be an announcement of a vaccine, since vaccines are preventive, not therapeutic.
The vaccine injury phenomenon is comparable to the life-threatening peanut allergy phenomenon. There are a very small number of people who have a terrible reaction. But in the case of vaccines, the number of people whose lives are saved by them far exceeds the number who are harmed.
Thimerosal is no longer used in routine childhood vaccines in the US and Europe, but continues to be used in other US and European vaccines, and in routine childhood vaccines in countries where refrigeration is not reliably available and where using single-use vials of vaccine for routine vaccination program would be prohibitively expensive. But there's never been any proof that thimerosal is harmful to children. Thimerosol was sold for many decades as "merthiolate", which, if you're old enough, you'll remember was in virtually every household medicine cabinet and routinely applied to every childhood cut and scrape.
The National Vaccine injury Compensation program is a special no-fault claims system administered by a special court, to compensate the small number of people who had these unforeseeable severe reactions. There is no requirement for claimants to show that any vaccine manufacturer or health care provider did anything wrong; only to show that a vaccination was the probable cause of the reaction and related harm.
Applying something topically is entirely different than injecting it into the body of a child with an immature immune system. Removing it from early childhood vaccinations now is like a day late and a dollar short. Curious...
The vast majority of Trump supporters who are at significant risk of severe COVID-19 disease will eagerly get vaccinated, if a reasonably well-proven vaccine becomes available. President Trump has been continuously emphasizing the importance of developing a vaccine quickly, and when one is approved in the US, he'll get it and tell everybody he got it.
However, the announcement scheduled for this evening has very specifically been described as a major *therapeutic" breakthrough, so I very much doubt it will be an announcement of a vaccine, since vaccines are preventive, not therapeutic.
The vaccine injury phenomenon is comparable to the life-threatening peanut allergy phenomenon. There are a very small number of people who have a terrible reaction. But in the case of vaccines, the number of people whose lives are saved by them far exceeds the number who are harmed.
Thimerosal is no longer used in routine childhood vaccines in the US and Europe, but continues to be used in other US and European vaccines, and in routine childhood vaccines in countries where refrigeration is not reliably available and where using single-use vials of vaccine for routine vaccination program would be prohibitively expensive. But there's never been any proof that thimerosal is harmful to children. Thimerosol was sold for many decades as "merthiolate", which, if you're old enough, you'll remember was in virtually every household medicine cabinet and routinely applied to every childhood cut and scrape.
The National Vaccine injury Compensation program is a special no-fault claims system administered by a special court, to compensate the small number of people who had these unforeseeable severe reactions. There is no requirement for claimants to show that any vaccine manufacturer or health care provider did anything wrong; only to show that a vaccination was the probable cause of the reaction and related harm.
Applying something topically is entirely different than injecting it into the body of a child with an immature immune system. Removing it from early childhood vaccinations now is like a day late and a dollar short. Curious...