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jfman · 03-02-2021, 12:10

By “following the science” in quotation marks I also intended to use the term somewhat ironically.

Once you get into the grounds of modelling outcomes outside those in the actual trial science becomes somewhat selective. If you had a desired policy outcome (e.g. to bypass the hardest to reach patients and into mass vaccination centres) you could propose this under the cloak of “following the science”. Something we know the UK Government has done, at all times.

When emerging data becomes available - and it will from the UK in either direction - “the science” can be amended accordingly.

Other, politically unpalatable, vaccination models have proposed to start with age groups with greater social contacts than the elderly. This way such a strategy could be shoehorned in without actually saying it was your intent.

03-02-2021, 12:10	#3351
jfman Architect of Ideas Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 11,146	Re: Coronavirus By “following the science” in quotation marks I also intended to use the term somewhat ironically. Once you get into the grounds of modelling outcomes outside those in the actual trial science becomes somewhat selective. If you had a desired policy outcome (e.g. to bypass the hardest to reach patients and into mass vaccination centres) you could propose this under the cloak of “following the science”. Something we know the UK Government has done, at all times. When emerging data becomes available - and it will from the UK in either direction - “the science” can be amended accordingly. Other, politically unpalatable, vaccination models have proposed to start with age groups with greater social contacts than the elderly. This way such a strategy could be shoehorned in without actually saying it was your intent.