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Re:mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? by brendoelfrendo on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:33PM (#25474470)
> Would love to hear more experts discuss why this is considered sufficiently long-term safe to make the decision of vaccinating a billion people after nine months of testing. Am I missing something, or is it just a question of the precautionary principle in this case being considered too costly?

I think, generally, it has been discussed. There's lots of research on mRNA vaccines going back decades at this point, though they haven't made it to market until now. I see people saying "it's not being discussed" often on this site, but really, anyone saying "no, this is safe" has the implicit support of all that research behind them.

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Re:mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? by chrisco255 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:27PM (#25475028)
It's not really that many decades of research. This tech is from the 90s. This is the very first mRNA vaccine to be deployed on a mass scale. Does it cause cancer 10, 20 years from now? Does anyone know that for sure? It's not like we have a perfect scientific statistical sampling of people who received mRNA vaccines 30 years ago and we can evaluate those long term effects.
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