You have not considered the possibility of Antibody-dependent Enhancement or Viral Immune Escape.
Firstly, I appreciate your calm and kind approach to the topic. Some dudes on here just fly off the handle like libtards REEEE-ing because someone said men shouldn't play contact sports with women (even if transgender).
To the point: I have reviewed those ideas/topics and I have rejected them because they are red herrings dreamed up by antivaxxers which literally do not exist for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. As fact, the exact opposite of ADE is occurring among the vaccinated and almost all deaths, hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.+(see footnote)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm
97 percent of COVID-19-related deaths were in unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people
95 percent of reported hospitalizations with COVID-19 as the primary diagnosis/cause of admission were in unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people
94 percent of reported COVID-19 cases were in unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people.
https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/health-details.aspx?newsid=1595
An even better dashboard exists for tracking this data:
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccination-outcomes.aspx
https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/antibody-dependent-enhancement-in-vaccines
We may be lucky enough that ADE or VIE will not randomly manifest. I hope so. But it's something to look out for.
At this point, it is not possible. We are too far along for them to be a possible outcome.
The human trials long ruled this out as a possibility. If they were possibilities or were going to occur, they would have occurred in the first 2 months after administration during the Phase II follow-ups (it did not occur). We are now near 18 months post human trial follow-ups. Keep in mind that these follow-ups are scheduled 2-3 years. We are almost done with complete follow-ups.
+What I see happen is some antivaxxer will do some researching for hours and hours and find something that they feel is a gotcha. Then they write an article about it or send it to their favorite antivaxxer blogger/writer. Then it gets posted. Then the folks which have no business discussing science tweet, comment, share it. This is how these ideas get put out there in the ether.
My family and friends and workmates are all vaccinated and I have yet to see side effects. Mind you it's only 2 months in.
I am still dealing with lethargy from the Moderna vaccine. I just got some blood work done and it turns out it super increased my Reverse T3 measure which can make people have brain fog, lethargy, etc.
The vaccines DO have side effects. They really do.
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