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Re:Attributes and predictors of long Covid by jerf on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:19AM (#26540373)
"Meanwhile, long-term harms from vaccination are entirely speculative."

I don't think this is a safe thing to say about mRNA vaccines, which are brand new. IIRC one of the vaccines is essentially an old-style vaccine made for COVID, and for that one you may be able to reasonably say that, but not the new stuff that has never been mass-deployed before.

Nor does this mean they're automatically bad either. There's always a first time for something new. I'm just saying that it isn't really justified to apply decades of experience with one type of vaccine to another blindly.

Re:Attributes and predictors of long Covid by maxerickson on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:33AM (#26540537)
The other US approved vaccine is a live viral carrier that has only been used fairly recently in experimental treatments (I think maybe an Ebola vaccine using it got approved recently?).