Somewhere around 0.5-1% of people who are infected with COVID die and a larger share experience very serious symptoms, some of which can be long lasting/permane

Somewhere around 0.5-1% of people who are infected with COVID die and a larger share experience very serious symptoms, some of which can be long lasting/permanent. The risks for the elderly are even higher, something like 15% death rate for people older than 80. In comparison the risks of a vaccine are much much much smaller, as long as the risks are similar to existing approved vaccines. The testing process is explicitly designed to make sure that no vaccine gets released that causes more harm than good. For comparison here is the symptom sheet for the flu vaccine https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/vaccinfosheets/en/ https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/vaccinfo... Or an easier to read summary https://immunizebc.ca/side-effects https://immunizebc.ca/side-effects The risks of serious complications for flu vaccine are closer to 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1 million, and even then the effects are usually much less serious than death.