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Obviously we don’t know everything, and we may never know with 100% certainty, but I disagree that we have “no idea”. We have prior knowledge from established v
by rsfern 5y ago
Obviously we don’t know everything, and we may never know with 100% certainty, but I disagree that we have “no idea”. We have prior knowledge from established vaccines about when to expect side effects, and what kinds are likely. Most known vaccine side effects are triggered by the immune response itself in the first few weeks, and we already have solid evidence on that time scale.
That doesn’t mean that novel side effects or delayed side effects are not possible, but I think without a plausible hypothesis it is reasonable to believe the risk is low, especially compared to a definite risk from infection.
- bsaul 5y agoYou just described the only part that’s not new, aka: triggering the immune system. that’s the most important part regarding the prevention of covid sickness, however that’s clearly not all the story about this technology. It always amazes me how people can not realize side-effects happens almost by definition outside of the model used to design the system, or make the plan. There’s a reason we usually require something closer to 10 years before deciding to authorize mass use of new drugs on a whole population. We want to be safer regarding « unknown unknowns ».