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You should balance that against your chance of contracting COVID-19, and the unknown long term effects of COVID-19. For me, the long-term consequences of the v
by dsjoerg 6y ago
You should balance that against your chance of contracting COVID-19, and the unknown long term effects of COVID-19.
For me, the long-term consequences of the vaccine seem to be better understood (theoretically, not empirically) than the long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection.
- TuringNYC 6y agoI think "we" -- as a society -- should balance those two sides. Vaccinations do not always make sense at an individual level, but make a lot of sense at a societal level. If everyone was making a personal trade-off we would not reach the global maxima.
- abfan1127 6y agohow can the long term consequences of the vaccine be better understood than the virus? The vaccine is younger than the virus, and orders of magnitude of more people have had the virus.
- floatingatoll 6y agomRNA vaccines were understood and studied prior to Covid. Covid infections (still) are not understood.
- tzs 6y agoAre there any prior mRNA vaccines that have been approved for human use? Wikipedia (currently...) says this and the Moderna ones would be the first.
- bluGill 6y agoThere have been a few phase-1 trials in humans. But mostly it is research.
- mrosett 6y agoThis isn't entirely true; the technology is still very new.
- floatingatoll 6y agoA five second search finds papers on mRNA vaccines from 2018. I see no papers on Covid prior to 2019. In relative terms, as the parent comment was using, we have been studying them longer. I am not arguing that they are well understood, but I imagine most people are filling in that word when they read the comment.
- abfan1127 6y agoWe've researched coronaviruses since the 1960s, had MERS and SARS most recently (less recent the 2018). I don't understand why we worry about long term effects of Covid, but not long term effects of mRNA vaccines? Both seem to have things to worry about, with both having different scales. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html
- just-juan-post 6y ago100% incorrect. These are the very first mRNA vaccines. Here is Wikiepdia to confirm. [1] You. Are. An. Alpha. Tester. And so is the rest of the world. We all are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine "Up until November 2020, no mRNA vaccine, drug, or technology platform, had ever been approved for use in humans, and before 2020, mRNA was only considered a theoretical possibility for effective use in human"
- abfan1127 6y agowhy do we get to generalize mRNA vaccines, but not SARS-Cov-2? We've known about coronaviruses since the 1960s, we've had MERS, SARS, and other more recent ones. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html I don't think we have long term information on either SARS-Cov-2 or the vaccine...