Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous (2015)

This article is quite interesting, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s particularly applicable to COVID-19. COVID-19 doesn&#x27;t kill the vast majority of the people it infects, and when it does, it happens several weeks later, when they aren&#x27;t spreading the virus anyway.<p>And while the vaccines are &quot;leaky&quot;, they appear to make people much less likely to spread the virus, not more.

I read this thinking what probably many think reading this, which is &quot;wow is this the parallel to vaccine hesitancy somehow causing the delta variant to dominate&quot; – but so far the more obvious reason for what&#x27;s sadly looking to be another spike worldwide, has just been vaccine hesitancy, something that doesn&#x27;t exist with chickens.

This article will get flagged, of course, but it is an instance of an interesting phenomenon: the number of (often crypto) vaccine-skeptical articles being posted and upvoted on HN indicates there is a significant contingent here that is vaccine-skeptical. However, despite that, you rarely see vaccine-skeptical comments.<p>An interesting dynamic.