Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by karma_fountain on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:55AM (#24895132)

It is good news if true, but we are rushing the trials of a new vaccine and then potentially going to give it to a large number of people. What if the vaccine has long term negative effects?

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by ageitgey on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:06AM (#24895211)

While long-term side effects are theoretically possible with any treatment, this vaccine is based on a platform that's been safety-tested repeatedly in experiment vaccines for prostate cancer, MERS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza and chikungunya virus, so there's a lot of past safety data. In addition because the main effect of the vaccine is to trigger a strong immune response, you would typically see side effects in the short term related to that initial response (things like Guillain-Barré syndrome or Transverse myelitis), not over the long term as the effect wanes.

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by ulfw on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:49AM (#24895568)

What if Covid-19 has long term negative effects?

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by anoncake on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:02AM (#24896239)

What if there's a teapot orbiting the sun?

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