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0 pointsbluGill5y ago0 comments

Old worries are whatever went wrong in previous medicine. (not just vaccines)

> given this is the first mRNA vaccine?

This is not the first mRNA vaccine, they have been using it against cancer for many years. They have had time to look for long term bad effects. If there are any they must be rare because none of been detected yet.

>Heavy metals ...

we also know when they are a problem and when not. This don't contain the bad forms. I don't even need to bother looking this up to state that confidently. The people working on this are not that stupid.

> On the other hand, we know that Covid is killing a large number of people right now.

> It doesn't

several hundred thousand dead already. And Covid is only around 9-10 months old. I didn't even get into long term effects of Covid. I personally have lost family to Covid, and have others who are having a hard time because of long term effects.

>I'm not going to ask for sources

The press release is the main one: no adverse effects noted.

I am going to wait for the science to be published before getting this (or any vaccine). However there is every reason to believe it will be good based on what we do know.

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whatshisface5y ago

The worry is that an adverse effect would be discovered, but then every world leader would get on the phone one after the other, and call the lab to say "hey let's not let people know about this." Or more realistically, the same would happen but with lots of implicit gesturing and the design of subtle incentives, instead of direct phone calls.

"Better than covid" is also not a great bar to meet. The real bar is, "better than N months of covid, where N is the time until a better vaccine with fewer adverse effects is discovered."

So, these are both abstract speculations. It would be nice if you could put some knowledge to them. Do you think it would be possible for an adverse effect to go unreported, while being common enough to equal those N months of covid?

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whatshisface5y ago

"Better than covid" is also not a great bar to meet. The real bar is, "better than N months of covid, where N is the time until a better vaccine with fewer adverse effects is discovered."

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