Those could also be long term side effects of covid. A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time after they get the shot.

Your priors have to be absolutely outrageous if based on the currently available data you think the risks are even within an order of magnitude.

> Those could also be long term side effects of covid.

Of course, but it's a lot worse when a cure causes issues. The point of medicine is to "first, do no harm".

It isn't that much worse when a cure causes issues. People endure terrible side effects from treatments to cure their cancer. Nearly every medicine I hear advertised has some risk of causing serious side effects, if not outright death

3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage".

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...

A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!

Call Israel and tell them they got it wrong.

Ok, you're clearly a troll. After all the reporting from the last year and a half, no one could seriously believe that the entire population of San Fransisco catching covid would result in fewer than 200 hospital admissions

a) that's the <60y number only

b) Isn't that "per 100,000 inhabitants", not "per 100,000 who catch the disease"?

There are an infinite number of things which could happen but there’s no mechanism or evidence making this likely. The vaccine doesn’t rewrite your DNA and it strengthens your normal immune response, which does none of those things.

Pluuuuuusssss... we don't know the long term impact of Covid itself.

People who argue against vaccines don't seem to think enough about that aspect.

Or maybe they're just arguing for the third group: people who already were infected and recovered.

No need to double up on the unknown risks of you already have immunity.

Based on our current information, that's at best 33% of the population. Realistically in most countries it's about 15-20%.

I personally know 2 women who had covid, were hospitalized, had emergency c sections and then died. That is a known risk. Your risk is hypothetical.

Or in unvaccinated mothers exposed to COVID-19.

Birth defects would have been observed already if they were a side effect of the vaccine.