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This is not true. There could be birth defects or lower iq in babies born from vaccinated mothers.

acdha 5y ago
There are an infinite number of things which could happen but there’s no mechanism or evidence making this likely. The vaccine doesn’t rewrite your DNA and it strengthens your normal immune response, which does none of those things.
- oblio 5y ago
  Pluuuuuusssss... we don't know the long term impact of Covid itself. People who argue against vaccines don't seem to think enough about that aspect.
  - Izkata 5y ago
    Or maybe they're just arguing for the third group: people who already were infected and recovered. No need to double up on the unknown risks of you already have immunity.
    - oblio 5y ago
      Based on our current information, that's at best 33% of the population. Realistically in most countries it's about 15-20%.
wombatpm 5y ago
Or in unvaccinated mothers exposed to COVID-19.
lern_too_spel 5y ago
Birth defects would have been observed already if they were a side effect of the vaccine.
seoaeu 5y ago
Those could also be long term side effects of covid. A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time after they get the shot. Your priors have to be absolutely outrageous if based on the currently available data you think the risks are even within an order of magnitude.
- xdennis 5y ago
  > Those could also be long term side effects of covid. Of course, but it's a lot worse when a cure causes issues. The point of medicine is to "first, do no harm".
  - seoaeu 5y ago
    It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright death
- 34679 5y ago
  3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage". https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
  - seoaeu 5y ago
    A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!
    - 34679 5y ago
      Call Israel and tell them they got it wrong.
cglace 5y ago
I personally know 2 women who had covid, were hospitalized, had emergency c sections and then died. That is a known risk. Your risk is hypothetical.

There are an infinite number of things which could happen but there’s no mechanism or evidence making this likely. The vaccine doesn’t rewrite your DNA and it strengthens your normal immune response, which does none of those things.

oblio 5y ago
Pluuuuuusssss... we don't know the long term impact of Covid itself. People who argue against vaccines don't seem to think enough about that aspect.
- Izkata 5y ago
  Or maybe they're just arguing for the third group: people who already were infected and recovered. No need to double up on the unknown risks of you already have immunity.
  - oblio 5y ago
    Based on our current information, that's at best 33% of the population. Realistically in most countries it's about 15-20%.

wombatpm 5y ago

Or in unvaccinated mothers exposed to COVID-19.

lern_too_spel 5y ago

Birth defects would have been observed already if they were a side effect of the vaccine.

seoaeu 5y ago

Those could also be long term side effects of covid. A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time after they get the shot. Your priors have to be absolutely outrageous if based on the currently available data you think the risks are even within an order of magnitude.

xdennis 5y ago
> Those could also be long term side effects of covid. Of course, but it's a lot worse when a cure causes issues. The point of medicine is to "first, do no harm".
- seoaeu 5y ago
  It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright death
34679 5y ago
3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage". https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
- seoaeu 5y ago
  A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!
  - 34679 5y ago
    Call Israel and tell them they got it wrong.

cglace 5y ago

I personally know 2 women who had covid, were hospitalized, had emergency c sections and then died. That is a known risk. Your risk is hypothetical.