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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by djsumdog on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:37AM (#25278100)
The 1976 Swine Flu?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bOHYZhL0WQ

Vaccines are also very young. We've had them for 185 years, and there were probably a lot of side effects from people getting stabbed with Horse Pox, but a lot of them probably just died and we didn't collect data back then they way we do today.

It's not comparable.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by graeme on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:18PM (#25278663)
No the 2009 one. Caused narcolepsy in a small number of people. Notably the mechanism was the same one as in the flu itself, so actually getting the flu would have caused worse narcolepsy.
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