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Same could be said of contracting COVID.

• toast0 6y ago
  Yes, the option with the most safety data is to not contract a novel disease and not be admininstered a novel vaccine (of a novel type). Any option involving contracting the disease or being administered the vaccine has unknowable long term risks; and it's foolish to argue otherwise. That doesn't mean you can't argue about short and medium term risks; but if someone is worried about long term risks, pointing to the months of studies doesn't help at all. Given the known short and medium term risks, vaccination seems like a good plan, at least where there is community spread. In areas where the disease is controlled, the unknowable long term risks dominate, IMHO, and would make it a harder decision. Of course, lack of supply moots that question for now, there's more than enough people to vaccinate in areas with major caseload, so we don't have to think about vaccinations in places that are under control.