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by tinus_hn 1689 days ago
Imagine both the vaccine and the drug offer the same protection, and both come with a risk of 0.00001 that you will die from taking it.

Considering not everyone who gets infected gets symptoms, would it be illogical to not take the vaccine, just in case you get infected and get symptoms, but to take the drug once you do get infected and get symptoms?
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ralmeida 1689 days ago
It wouldn't be necessarily illogical but would still qualify as "taking part in an experiment trial", as put by the parent post.

To determine if this is a rational strategy or not, we'd have to get real numbers (is it really likely that 1 in 100k people die from taking the vaccine?), and compare that against the reduction in probability of dying from COVID by even combining both treatments.

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tinus_hn 1689 days ago
It is still possible to take rational decisions in the face of unknowns. Just like you probably decided, in your opinion rationally, to take the vaccine even though there really isn’t a whole lot of data available as they are pretty new.

And please, I just made up these numbers to answer the posed question:

> how can "I'll take experimental treatment B instead of experimental treatment A" be an argument

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