Tested on rhesus macaques. Worked well for 44% of them.

It's a positive step, but still a fair way off for humans.

It doesn't need to be 100% effective in humans, it just needs to slow transmission enough such that the rate of incidence declines in the direction of eradication.

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wavemode 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It will have the opposite effect, if people who get the vaccine start behaving as though they are 100% protected (which, many people will).

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Jalad 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is called moral hazard, and people love to worry about it. Usually though (the relevant example here is PrEP, or birth control) it's fine and enables people to live their lives with fewer risks to their, and others, wellbeing

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cromka 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It will

It might. You don't know that.

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wavemode 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The epistemic modality of my statement was implied. I obviously don't know the future.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I obviously don't know the future Nor the past. Seatbelt requirements did result in riskier driving. It also, on the net, saved lives. Same for every other vaccine, or e.g. birth control in respect of teenage and unwanted pregnancies. Also, PreP exists and works.