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"Meanwhile, long-term harms from vaccination are entirely speculative." I don't think this is a safe thing to say about mRNA vaccines, which are brand new. IIR
by jerf 6y ago
"Meanwhile, long-term harms from vaccination are entirely speculative."
I don't think this is a safe thing to say about mRNA vaccines, which are brand new. IIRC one of the vaccines is essentially an old-style vaccine made for COVID, and for that one you may be able to reasonably say that, but not the new stuff that has never been mass-deployed before.
Nor does this mean they're automatically bad either. There's always a first time for something new. I'm just saying that it isn't really justified to apply decades of experience with one type of vaccine to another blindly.
- maxerickson 6y agoThe other US approved vaccine is a live viral carrier that has only been used fairly recently in experimental treatments (I think maybe an Ebola vaccine using it got approved recently?).