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A POX ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES II

If the Corona vaccines do end up causing more pathogenic (and not just more transmissible) strains, you will never hear about it. Marek’s Effect is limited mostly to poultry, but the whole problem has nevertheless inspired nervousness in Camp Vaccine, where everybody is worried about providing ammunition to their nemeses, the antivaxxers. But there’s another problem too: Despite everything you’ve read about how the variants cause worse disease, the evidence for this is pretty terrible, in no small part because nobody will induce experimental infections in human subjects to study the relative pathogenicity of different lineages. Future Marek’s-Effect strains would be concealed from us by the same ethical concerns. It would seem to us only that the virus was getting worse.
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