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You can't compare vaccines to the overall universe of drugs like that. The main difference is that drugs that are intended to be taken over the long term can de
by tempestn 6y ago
You can't compare vaccines to the overall universe of drugs like that. The main difference is that drugs that are intended to be taken over the long term can develop long term side effects. Vaccines are taken once or a few times, and then they're done. The parent is correct that complications arising from vaccines years after they're taken just isn't something that should be expected to happen.
- throwawayboise 6y agoWould your feeling change if we discover that yearly boosters of the COVID vaccine will be required indefinitely?
- mynameisvlad 6y agoThe flu vaccine is still called a vaccine and it’s delivered yearly and while not required is highly recommended indefinitely. Why would this be any different?
- tempestn 6y agoNo, because again, you take the vaccine, it causes an immune response, and then it leaves your system. Even if you then take it again a year later. It's not like a drug that you're regularly taking, which remains in your system. What would change my mind is if I saw vaccinologists explaining a mechanism by which a vaccine could cause long-term side effects, rather than the opposite.