<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tfehring</author><text>Isn’t the varicella zoster vaccine, which many schools have required for decades, also non-sterilizing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>The MMR vaccine required by school is sterilizing, once and done. Intramuscular Covid vaccines provide blood&amp;#x2F;serum antibodies that can reduce the risk of severe disease or death, but they are non-sterilizing. They never promised to prevent infection and the CDC has updated their definitions to make that clear.&lt;p&gt;Why would employers need legal immunity? Their lawyers may want to look closely at the legal immunity protections of the PREP act, which extend to healthcare professionals who recommend &amp;quot;countermeasures&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would employers need additional immunity? Do schools usually need legal immunity when they require vaccines?</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is the federal government going to provide employers with the same legal immunity granted to pharmaceutical vendors via the PREP act?&lt;p&gt;Does this mandate incorporate the Sept 2021 CDC definition of vaccine, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;article254111268.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;article25...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would that change liability requirements?&lt;p&gt;My fundamental question is that schools already have tons of vaccine requirements, so why should this one be considered special?</text><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>The MMR vaccine required by school is sterilizing, once and done. Intramuscular Covid vaccines provide blood&amp;#x2F;serum antibodies that can reduce the risk of severe disease or death, but they are non-sterilizing. They never promised to prevent infection and the CDC has updated their definitions to make that clear.&lt;p&gt;Why would employers need legal immunity? Their lawyers may want to look closely at the legal immunity protections of the PREP act, which extend to healthcare professionals who recommend &amp;quot;countermeasures&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would employers need additional immunity? Do schools usually need legal immunity when they require vaccines?</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is the federal government going to provide employers with the same legal immunity granted to pharmaceutical vendors via the PREP act?&lt;p&gt;Does this mandate incorporate the Sept 2021 CDC definition of vaccine, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;article254111268.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;coronavirus&amp;#x2F;article25...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/</url></story>