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What do you mean "Vaccines are a relatively new technology"? We've had vaccines since 1796 [0] when Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox, a terrible

What do you mean "Vaccines are a relatively new technology"? We've had vaccines since 1796 [0] when Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox, a terrible disease that we fully eradicated thanks to vaccination. A disease that you and me don't have to worry about because of vaccines. (Likewise for Cholera, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Meningitis, etc) Also, trains, cars, planes, cameras, lightbulbs and every invention of Edison are newer technologies than vaccines. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_vaccines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_vaccines

mamon 6y ago
Maybe they mean "mRNA vaccines"? COVID vaccine is the first of this kind, so some side effects, especially long term ones, are still unknown. It's still unlikely that they would be very serious but we won't know for sure until 10 years from now.
- andruby 6y ago
  In case people really have concerns about the newer mRNA vaccines, perhaps they can choose the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is a more traditional one.
  - hda111 6y ago
    Both are more or less new. The AZ method is only known from Ebola vaccines but they were not not used globally.