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> Conventional vaccines are sterilizing Many vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity. Just to give one random example: flu vaccines do not provide sterili

> Conventional vaccines are sterilizing Many vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity. Just to give one random example: flu vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity. > have good safety records The various SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have very good safety records. They've been administered to billions of people, and the rates of serious side-effects are on the order on one per several hundred thousand - orders of magnitude lower than the rate of serious complications from infection. > The new Novavax vaccine, which is a conventional vaccine I don't know how you're defining "conventional" here, but Novavax also uses a new vaccine platform.

OrvalWintermute 4y ago
> The various SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have very good safety records. They've been administered to billions of people, and the rates of serious side-effects are on the order on one per several hundred thousand - orders of magnitude lower than the rate of serious complications from infection. I know 2 people with severe adverse events from the vaxx. Considering how many vaccinations I have received my life due to military service, that is an order of magnitude worse than any vaccination, ever.