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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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