11-30-2020, 12:10 PM
There was also the issue of side effect profiles for the various vaccines. The working group that has been analyzing the data is supposed to prioritize vaccines for different groups using the clinical data accumulated. So if say one vaccine had more side effects for the elderly population, that would be shifted away from nursing homes and used more for younger frontline healthcare workers. It sounded like there's little side effects, even with the new mRNA vaccines, so that should make things easier, but they didn't know it before the data came out.