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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by SifJar on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:18AM (#25274743)
> These vaccines have been tested in ~40,000 people each, so we do know quite a bit about their safety.

We know quite a bit about their short term safety. It's impossible to know for sure if there is any long term side effect. But that is probably a risk we have to take to get past the immediate threat of covid-19.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by anthonypasq on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:46AM (#25277373)
vaccines pretty much never have long term side effects
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by parliament32 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:47PM (#25280662)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10870...
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by grillvogel on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:34PM (#25281954)
so because other unrelated vaccines that have existed for a long time and known to have no long term side effects, we should assume that this brand new vaccine has no long term side effects?
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