Results confirm how uncommon known complications are as researchers confirm benefits from vaccines still ‘vastly outweigh the risks’
Two new but exceptionally rare Covid-19 vaccine side effects – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – have been detected by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date.
The study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland also confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “vastly outweigh the risks”.
Researchers working as part of the Global Vaccine Data Network used deidentified electronic healthcare data to compare the rates of 13 brain, blood and heart conditions in people after they received the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccine with the rate that would be expected of those conditions in the population before the pandemic.
Taking ANY vaccine has risks, and these vaccines even more so, considering their untested nature when they were introduced. We had to trust the science, but it was still a gamble.
I took the vaccine knowing that side effects were possible. That was a risk I felt comfortable with, knowing that everyone else who took it faced that same level of risk and uncertainty.
It sucks that some had these side effects, but the effectiveness of the vaccine has saved countless more lives.
Let’s not forget that before the vaccine, Covid was quite deadly. We had literal mass graves, trucks full of bodies, mass cremations that couldn’t keep up with the death toll. Between that and the vaccine risk… the choice was easy. We came way closer to catastrophe than we like to think about.
EVERYTHING has risks. People have choked to death on food before - that’s not the reason to stop eating. There’s a risk the ceiling is going to fall down on your head at any moment, but then if you go outside, there’s a risk you might get hit by lightning or a bolt that fell off a Boeing flying above…
That’s not a dig at you by the way - it’s at people who argue in bad faith asking for 100% guarantees of safety, be it for vaccines or anything else. It is not possible, and people need to comprehend it - in this case the risk is on the level of being hit by lighting, so unless you’re afraid of going outside, you shouldnt be afraid of the darn vaccine…
Regarding mass graves:
New York:
https://time.com/5913151/hart-island-covid/
Peru:
Brazil:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22C0D2/
Trucks full of bodies:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victims-refrigerated-trucks/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/texas-arizona-coronavirus-deaths-refrigerated-trucks-morgues/
Mass cremations and associated issues:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/22434028/india-covid-cremations
Now granted, some of those spilled over to when vaccines were available in the west. China had issues with lots of cremations as late as early 2023.
There were several missteps by vaccine proponents that undermined their case. There was also a lot of hyperbole from vaccine hesitant people that made them look hysterical.
Really. What missteps were made? The hysteria from hesitant anti-vaxxers and political fear mongerers were real, I would call “hesitant” people the ones who realize vaccines are a likely necessity but didn’t understand how the COVID vaccines worked and were probably influenced by lies from the ant-vax crowd.
What middle ground could possibly be made here regarding “truth”? Vaccine risks are known and fairly well established. The risks of early COVID strains were known. The only people straddling a fence in the middle are those who lack the knowledge of the risks or have objectively real medical problem with vaccines, not some made-up junk about mercury or something.
Vaccines are neither a 100% safe panacea, nor are they injectable death.
OMG this is binary JAQing off. Nobody suggests either of these and it’s ridiculous to even posit this phrase.
