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		rootusrootus on Dec 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in... Is that not true of all medicines? There is a net benefit calculation to be made.

krona on Dec 2, 2020 [–]

The hippocratic oath doesn't pertain to a doctors effect on an entire society, but to her patient. Utilitarian medical ethics do not apply in any sane society.

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