One in Three Americans Would Not Get Covid-19 Vaccine

    - How effective is the vaccine. The influenza vaccine only reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine.
    - New vaccine - How has it been tested? The Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists for a reason, and these vaccines are being rushed.
    - Why this particular vaccine? There are at least 120 in development.
    - Article indicates the vaccine is free.  No vaccine is free.  Even if there is no direct financial cost to the person getting the vaccine, there will be costs and expenses to getting it. If your not upfront about this, what else are you not mentioning?  Perhaps the vaccine is free, but not the administration of it?
    - How is this vaccine administered? A recent Phizer vaccine requires two doses 21 days apart.  It was not clear what form it was, but I suspect an injection which the article uses for illustration.  This means dealing with some medical office twice, likely during the day and requiring an appointment and taking time off work and getting to the site and it is not stated how much that 21 days can vary.
    - Look at the governments reactions and responses to date.  There have been issues politicizing the response and many failures to date and this poll wants me to blindly trust them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risks-of-rush...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/bill-gates-on-covid-...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200515/pfizer-says-covid-1...

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/07/fact-sheet-explain...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

Vaccines are also not 100% effective, some people who get vaccinated are not themselves fully immune. If you choose not to vaccinate you also put those people at risk.

Finally, if you choose not vaccinate and end up in the ICU, you are taking resources in a critical ward that might be needed for patients with other serious medical conditions.

For example, someone who is pregnant or has a weakened immune system should not get the MMR vaccine. It's possible there will be certain conditions for any COVID-19 vaccine as well. These people will have to rely on herd immunity (ideally attained mostly through vaccinations) to ensure they stay healthy. If someone is eligible to get a vaccine but chooses not to, that would be putting others at risk.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html

It varies by vaccine, but allergies, health conditions, and age are all factors.

Some people also practice religions that forbid them.

2) Then there's studies like this one from 2012 about original SARS vaccine development (with almost a decade of research after the initial outbreak) that shows 4 completely different approaches to vaccination all made subsequent exposure to the virus worse.

Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

We should be skeptical of a vaccine for any disease where one of the major complication risks is basically a form of autoimmune disease.

We don't want to encourage a strong autoimmune response when a major existing risk is an overly aggressive immune response.

This is a reason that steroids seem to be emerging as a beneficial treatment: they actually suppress immune system response.

I'm not suggesting an effective vaccine won't ever be developed, but we shouldn't judge people in what may be a valid concern. Even if they have different than the relevant reasons for that concern.