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Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya decry the “ill-advised push to vaccinate the young.” Two slices:

For younger adults and children, it is a different story, as their mortality (tỷ lệ tử vong, tử suất) risk is extremely low. Even a slight risk of a serious vaccine adverse reaction could tip the benefit-risk calculation, making the vaccine more harmful than beneficial. We have already observed rare problems with blood clots (J&J vaccine) and myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle = viêm cơ tim, Pfizer and Moderna) in younger people, and additional equally serious issues might still be found.

Under such uncertainty, vaccine mandates are unethical. University presidents or business leaders should not mandate a medical intervention (can thiệp y tế) that could have dire consequences (hậu quả thảm khốc) for the health of even a few of the people in their charge.

Second, recovered COVID patients have strong long–lasting protection against severe disease if reinfected, and evidence about protective immunity (miễn dịch) after natural infection is at least as good as from the vaccines. Hence, it makes no sense to require vaccines for recovered patients. For them, it simply adds a risk, however small, without any benefit.

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Universities used to be bastions (pháo đài, đồn lũy, thành lũy) of enlightenment (khai sáng). Now many of them ignore basic benefit-risk analyses, a staple of the toolbox of scientists; they deny immunity from natural infection; they abandon the global international perspective for narrow nationalism; and they replace trust with coercion and authoritarianism. Mandating the COVID-19 vaccine thus threatens not only public health but also the future of science.

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