New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

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    11 months ago

    Genuinely impressive how a vaccine made under the conditions and time constraints COVID faced is so effective.

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      11 months ago

      That’s because most of the groundwork in developing mrna vaccines had already been done for years and years. This wasn’t “how do we invent a vaccine for covid?”, this was “how do we adapt this proven, well-understood vaccine tech so that it works for covid just like it does for the ebola virus that we originally developed it for?”

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        11 months ago

        There was also a large amount of money thrown at developing the vaccine because of the virus’ significant economic impacts.

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          11 months ago

          it’s wild because it was a whole bunch of our money but somehow the vaccine developed with all of our money is still privately owned

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            11 months ago

            Imagine if we had national bodies developing drugs to treat health problems rather than private companies developing drugs to make as much money as possible.

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      They’ve been developing it since the first SARS.

      Poem

      Edit: I was wrong, they started developing MRNA vaccines in the 1970s.

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      11 months ago

      Genuinely impressive how a vaccine made under the conditions and time constraints COVID faced is so effective.

      Come ON! This doesn’t say the vaccine - which one? - is effective but would have low adverse effects.

      Not astonished that you put people against this experimental product in the case of anti-vax despite them being vaccinated for other stuff.