>This isn't a meaningful claim for 2 key reasons. There has never been a vaccine that had serious side effects that did show up shortly after vaccination[2]. The history of mRNA treatments began as an experiment in gene therapy, but has largely ben abandoned because the effects never lasted long enough. As of 2020 this is an ongoing area of research[3]. No one has figure out how to stabilize mRNA so that it has long lasting effects.
This isn't really what I'm worried about. Right now people are talking long COVID, subtle long term brain damage and it seems like mechanisms are still unknown. So who's to say that immune system reaction triggered by vaccination isn't causing same kind of hard to detect damage. I'd be much more comfortable with the vaccine if the long COVID studies included groups :
- no vaccination/hospitalised
- no vaccination/asymptomatic
- vaccination/not infected
- vaccination/infected
I'm not a risk group and have no problems with social distancing so I'm waiting for stuff like this to come out.
This isn't really what I'm worried about. Right now people are talking long COVID, subtle long term brain damage and it seems like mechanisms are still unknown. So who's to say that immune system reaction triggered by vaccination isn't causing same kind of hard to detect damage. I'd be much more comfortable with the vaccine if the long COVID studies included groups :
- no vaccination/hospitalised
- no vaccination/asymptomatic
- vaccination/not infected
- vaccination/infected
I'm not a risk group and have no problems with social distancing so I'm waiting for stuff like this to come out.