okaram
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Also, they may need an adjustment period, which makes sense.
I think we need to wait and see how it works, before blindly criticizing a possible good idea
This is not being a contrarian, but a realist.
He was a super-rich guy, who had had too many people telling him he was a genius for way too long (reminds you of anybody?), and so was way too sure of himself. A bunch of his ideas were crazy, which doesn't mean others weren't trying to dismiss his views.
It is DEFINITELY not too early to tell. Cervical cancer rates in Australia, which adopted the vaccine widely and early have decreased, and it has been widely reported ( https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/cancer-types/cervical-can... )
The benefits may be statistically lower, since you may have been infected by some of the variants already, older males may have fewer sexual partners in the future, and cancer takes a while to develop.
In the USA, it is recommended by default for adults up to 26 and kinda for 27-45.
This is not a vaccine, BTW, and it needs to be given every 6 months.
As a data point, the paper below shows 1,213 out of 18,401 high-risk people in France got infected in 4 years (and 260 out of 31,992 with the previous gen prep, it seems this one reduces it by ~10x again)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
Eventually some companies will start scooping talent up, and everybody will zig :)
I would immediately discard any website that makes me send an email to order.
The recommendations tend to take these into account, and then you and your doctor adjust.
Sometimes politics gets into it, like with the recent changes to breast cancer recommendations, but, overall, it works well for many people.
I'd assume the chances of getting a second false positive if you already got one are much higher.
This seems to me like good enough safeguards, don't you think?