> the prospect of contracting COVID-19 with roughly a 10% probability of developing severe to life-threatening symptoms?

Citation needed. For 45-65 year olds IFR seems to be in the 0.3% rate, for under 45s it's way lower.

Hospitalisations about 2-4 times the number of deaths, so that seems to be in the 1% range for 'severe' symptons if you catch it and are towards the older age of nurses

You're responding with IFR, which deals with infections (including many asymptomatic) and mortality, when your parent comment is discussing cases and severe morbidity.

That is, you're comparing apples and oranges.

IFR is almost always significantly lower than CFR for infectious diseases. That's particularly the case with Covid.

A case is just a detected infection. If you have no tests, then your cases will be low. Your infections will be high.

A "Case Fatality" is a pretty meaningless number. You can't avoid the consequences of covid19 by not being tested.

A lot of people who don’t want to take it cite the lack of testing, actually.

There hasn't been a lack of testing. The vaccine in question went through all the usual required testing phases.

I really feel like it's just sublimated fear of shots and chemical manufacturing processes. If you could offer the vaccine as a herbal remedy, I doubt there'd be any serious opposition to it; people are happy to try random weird herbal teas without expecting a demonstration of their safety.

10% of severe symptoms is a known. Whatever the covid vaccine causes is not known.