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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by mrosett on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:56AM (#25161611)
This isn't entirely true; the technology is still very new.
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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by floatingatoll on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:01AM (#25161659)
A five second search finds papers on mRNA vaccines from 2018. I see no papers on Covid prior to 2019. In relative terms, as the parent comment was using, we have been studying them longer.

I am not arguing that they are well understood, but I imagine most people are filling in that word when they read the comment.

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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by abfan1127 on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:59PM (#25163653)
We've researched coronaviruses since the 1960s, had MERS and SARS most recently (less recent the 2018). I don't understand why we worry about long term effects of Covid, but not long term effects of mRNA vaccines? Both seem to have things to worry about, with both having different scales.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html

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