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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by rixrax on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#25114026)
Because no one knows what potential problems people may face in 1, 2,5,10,15,20, to years after being sick with Covid. Think of elevated risk of cancers, stokes, and other maladies.

From Mayo clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

Before we get this thing under control, in US we will at current rate expose almost 10% of population to COVID-19 (now at some 11M people[1]). We should really pray that long term effects are negligible because otherwise we have non-insignificant part of population that are partially damaged and further hinder US in the global competition against China and others.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by usaphp on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#25117531)
You seem to misunderstand the point I was trying to make. That same argument can be brought up against potential problems of a vaccine which is based on a novel technology and has not been tested for 1,2,5,10,15,20 years.
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