mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)

Re:mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) by ars on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:52PM (#26879410)

I was also nervous. But I was reassured when I discovered the first Clinical trials were one year ago (almost to the day).

Additionally the number of shots we have given (around 200 million, probably more) is effectively the worlds largest clinical trial. If there were problems, even rare ones, we would hear about it by now.

Those two things reassured me to the point that I went and got the shot.

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Re:mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) by logicchains on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:06PM (#26884996)

> If there were problems, even rare ones, we would hear about it by now.

Not if they were long-term effects that took 1-2 years+ to manifest.

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Re:mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) by kolinko on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:19AM (#26886745)

Long-term effects follow a bell curve, so if they took 1-2 years to show up in average, with 200M vaccinated people, we would see initial cases already.

Also, there have been no long term effects of a vaccine that didn’t begin in a first month-post vaccination, ever. There is no theory even on how would it be possible for them to manifest after more than a year if nothing happened before.

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