Pretty sure every vaccine is like this. It’s not a big deal because of herd immunity and the fact that they are still pretty effective
This is why I’m still holding out hope for the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine even after the dubious results regarding trails, it went under extensive testing in South Africa, so it shouldn’t have this problem if it works.
Breaking. Vaccine funded by mayos works best on mayos. This is like when we only do neuroscience drug trials on men and then are suprised when the drugs work way better on men
I’ve always wondered, and asking in good faith, where does genetic/epigenetic/environmental research on different ethnicities stop and the “race science” begin? Where is the line here?
In American science this stuff is immensely complicated because the vast majority of black Americans are “ADOS” and represent their own distinct ethnic group in the current era, but that doesn’t include any immigrants from Africa (especially east africans who share little DNA with black ADOS) who are lumped in with them for medical purposes.
If anything lumping white and asian together as a singular things is more of a problem here medically speaking in terms of genetic risk factors since there’s less mixing as you move across the country. It’s just that there are institutional problems as it relates to developing medical treatments for non white groups.
How tf they manage to make vaccines racist
I think the issue is usually one of sample size. I’m pulling this from memory of a research methods class I took a while ago so if someone has a better knowledge of medical trials specifically feel free to correct me or add on.
But, the idea is that when studies are done be it due to outreach, advertisement, self-selection, or available populations near and at the University there’s always much larger white populations that end up being part of trials.
