FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by azinman2 on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:53PM (#28278709)

Getting Covid is not safe, like at all, so it’s so bizarre to me that anyone would look at the safety profile of a vaccine in a vacuum. Any medication has rare side effects. Tylenol has rare side effects that can be severe. Covid has direct effects that are common and severe.

Cigarettes and asbestos are not vaccines and are thus evaluated totally differently (and at a totally different point in time). In past vaccines monitoring, bad things happen right away versus long term:

“Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose. For this reason, the FDA required each of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines to be studied for at least two months (eight weeks) after the final dose. Millions of people have received COVID-19 vaccines, and no long-term side effects have been detected.” [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa...

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by collias on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:03PM (#28278841)

I never claimed getting covid was safe, only that we don’t have long-term data on the vaccines.

Re: things like Tylenol, the difference is we have a ton of long term data on that, and the interactions with things like alcohol or other drugs are well known.

The fact that the FDA made a point to say that the vaccine was studied for eight whole weeks is worrisome, for something that most of the population will be forced or at least coerced into taking.

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