Fri-25-12-2020, 18:17 PM
(Fri-25-12-2020, 14:49 PM)jiml Wrote: Interesting reply and I guess the simple answer is they just don't know, these vaccines have been rushed out and they are flying by the seat if their pants and learning as they go.
But my thinking is if you are OK with a flu jab it will probably be safe for the covid jab but that's just my thinking
I'm not certain the vaccines have been as rushed as we might think. And perhaps they have, just going by different articles.
I read one early on that explained that under normal circumstances, they can spend years just getting the funding, which was cut short when countries immediately approved funding for a coronavirus vaccine. That made sense to me.
Also that study of SARS vaccines began years ago and that (some?) of the current covid vaccines were able to begin further along with that knowledge. As in a lot of research was already in place. Also makes sense.
Now I don't know how much of that is fact and how much of that is just to reassure people. And of course with anything new there is no way for certain to tell of any long term issues until long term arrives.
I saw a cute cartoon, it showed a woman with a "mark" on her arm and a child. The child asked what the mark was for and the woman answered that it was a scar from the smallpox vaccine she received as a child. The child then asks why they don't have a scar like that and the woman replied... "Because it worked"