09-13-2021, 07:41 PM
(09-13-2021, 07:15 PM)plam Wrote:(09-13-2021, 05:07 PM)jeffster Wrote: My concern is long term side effects of a vaccine that is using new technology. We have zero idea 5, 10, 20 years down the road. Give it to children (under 12) who have major health issues, sure. To healthy kids, no. Unless we come up with a more traditional vaccine. And really, no one can say 100% that 10 years down the road bad things won't start happening. They were wrong about J&J, Astra-Zeneca an Moderna, after all the studies. What makes you think they'd be right about this? These kids brains are growing. They haven't hit puberty. If shit can hit the ceiling after the fact for those other vaccines after approval, it can here too for young children.
Rather, we need to use resources to vaccinate and educate the holdouts, vaccinate those in developing and poor nations. I know some will bring up "Covax", but remember, we used to to vaccinate our people. We should have done better, and need to do better. And quickly before a worse variant comes out.
It's reasonable to be somewhat suspicious of these vaccines which seem to have come pretty quickly. However, we have rolled out vaccines to people after far less testing. There doesn't seem to be any vaccine of any type that has side effects after 6 months. This link has a list of vaccine side effects and how we don't see any long term side effects, and also talks about our experience with mRNA and adenovirus treatments in general.
https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side...19-vaccine
I also think COVID and particularly delta in under-12s is going to be more of an issue going forward.
We people have been injected with mRNA vaccines en mass for over a year now, Phase 3 trials began in fall 2020.