Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by mlyle on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:05PM (#25403010)

> Really? We've got a lot more data on COVID than we do on the vaccines.

Sure, but we don't know much about long-term morbidity tied to COVID infection, or exactly how many people it will get in the end. Even if I've got it all wrong--- the vaccine is riskier than our current data implies in the age 24-30 group, and fewer people from age 24-30 will get it because things burnt themselves out earlier-- what about the risks of long-term morbidity from COVID-19 infection in this group? Even that alone dwarfs likely vaccine risks. A whole lot of people are getting hospitalized, and even only 5% of them ending up with some degree of long term disability is daunting.

There's big error bars all around, but they largely don't overlap, and COVID has profound downside risks.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by bird_monster on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:48PM (#25403566)

> Sure, but we don't know much about long-term morbidity tied to COVID infection

I would say the same about the vaccines though. It seems like a lose/lose but one of which has a much greater sample.

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