How tf they manage to make vaccines racist

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By mostly testing white people in the studies.

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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.

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this happens pretty often in pharma shit because they overwhelmingly test white guys and then the dosages of pills for example are often too much or too little for e.g. many women because they’re smaller/weigh less/etc. on average than men

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The same way they do with AI.

They test with white people only.

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Colour me fucking surprised

Okay for real this time, does anyone know where to get the Chinese covid vaccine because dumbass crackers just can’t help not genociding POC

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What makes you think that won’t work best on people of Asian heritage? I somehow don’t imagine they had a very large cohort of sub-saharan africans in their trials…

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China was testing their vaccine in Brazil though, majority brown+black population.

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The average Brazilian has 70% European ancestry

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Their vaccines been in phase 3 testing in Brazil, turkey, Russia, and some other places. Plenty of generic variation there I reckon.

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The only vaccine that got tested in the country I live in (in Africa) was the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine lol. Even the British gammons weren’t as bad/racist as the USA vaccine makers. But now there’s news that the Oxford vaccine trail results are dubious, so

:agony-limitless:

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what are gammons? i googled and it’s ham? and my naive brain fails to draw a conclusion here

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They’re more like the UK version of CHUD. They’re named gammon because they resemble the colour of a gammon when they get mad about someone not respecting the queen or saying that the British Empire wasn’t great. Mainly middle aged and up white men.

Picture examples here.

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They’re the UK version of rednecks I’ve been told.

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**Using advanced machine learning AI methods ** that examined a form of vaccine similar to Moderna and Pfizer’s…

I’m calling bullshit on this study.

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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

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