BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by jacquesm on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:56PM (#28131195)

Not necessarily a bad thing. If your body reacts strongly to a vaccine that is a sign that your immune system has taken notice. As a reductio-ad-absurdum argument: if you were injected with a saline solution you'd have no side effects (assuming a clean needle!) but also no protection at all.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by abcd_f on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:32PM (#28132451)

Re: not a bad thing -

I had a really bad reaction to the second shot of Moderna and I was rather pissed about it until I realized that the symptoms were almost exactly the same as those of my father who actually had Covid. Except he had it twice as bad.

So the take-away for me was that if you have a bad reaction to a vaccine, consider yourself lucky, because it would’ve been much worse if you were to contract the actual virus.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by nradov on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:02PM (#28131285)

There doesn't appear to be any real correlation between the severity of vaccine side effects versus long term protection. Those are separate parts of the immune system.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-covid-vaccine-side-...

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by jacquesm on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:59PM (#28132044)

Thank you!

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