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> Many people are wary of the newness of mRNA technology. > They think a long term affect has been overlooked or is unknown. To be a reasonable concern it has

> Many people are wary of the newness of mRNA technology. > They think a long term affect has been overlooked or is unknown. To be a reasonable concern it has to be weighed against the alternatives. People have essentially four options assuming the virus does't just go away soon: get vaccinated using a new technology, wait for an older technology vaccine to be available, mask/isolate until the new vaccines have sufficient long-term data for their ill-defined concerns, get COVID. Well COVID has high risk for long-term effects for all age-groups including death so any reasonable person will exclude that option. Older technology vaccines for many regions of the world may never be available or be sufficiently efficacious so that and masking/isolating indefinitely and maybe even getting COVID are the same option. Plus, there is no data showing any long-term effects for vaccines that don't become apparent in the first year or 100 million people receiving them. COVID vaccine hesitancy is no longer a reasonable position to hold.

ixacto 5y ago
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA and it is currently available in the United States. There were adult women under the age of 50 who had some medical problems with it but, it is much better than getting COVID. If the mRNA vaccine are the obstacle in getting vaccinated I’d go with the J&J. (Note: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice)
- nyokodo 5y ago
  > The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA It uses DNA delivered via a non-replicating adenovirus vector, it's the first vaccine of its kind to be given any form of approval in humans in the United States and maybe the fourth in the world all in the last year. It is still "new technology" in a similar fashion to the mRNA vaccines. For the new=scary=bad crowd it isn't much of an improvement.

ixacto 5y ago

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA and it is currently available in the United States. There were adult women under the age of 50 who had some medical problems with it but, it is much better than getting COVID. If the mRNA vaccine are the obstacle in getting vaccinated I’d go with the J&J. (Note: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice)

nyokodo 5y ago
> The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA It uses DNA delivered via a non-replicating adenovirus vector, it's the first vaccine of its kind to be given any form of approval in humans in the United States and maybe the fourth in the world all in the last year. It is still "new technology" in a similar fashion to the mRNA vaccines. For the new=scary=bad crowd it isn't much of an improvement.