Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

Post by prh8 » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

unnouinceput wrote: post #117

strombofulous wrote: post #48

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I hope so. I would be upset if I got the vaccine and people who didn't have it were allowed to work near me, but I would just keep WFH. I would be outraged if I were forced to work with them

Why would you be upset for? It's their life, not yours. Once you get vaccinated, ideally, you get immune to the virus. You neither can develop the disease nor spread it. It's the same as saying you don't want to work with people who didn't got vaccinated by any other number of vaccines (let you search wiki for full list as exercise) and I'm pretty sure it already happened.

Post by _Microft » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #154

jdndbfbf wrote: post #140

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I'll let you test it for me and find out what the long term effects are.

I'll take my chances. My sister-in-law is dead. A brother-in-law is still unsure if we can talk across a room without fainting (6 months ago he was running several miles a day). This is just in my tiny circle of close family. Thousands in a much larger sample of had the vaccine with no side effects anywhere near that bad.

Post by phillc73 » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

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As someone who has some experience with clinical trials and drug approvals, I'd be quite comfortable taking the vaccine. A clinical trial size of 40,000 (20,000 receiving the vaccine) is way larger than a lot of other drugs that people are comfortable taking. Is there zero risk of serious side effects? Of course not, there never is. But the trial gives enough data to say the risk is worth the benefit. Edit: The FDA h…

It also depends on the known safety profile. With AstraZeneca some people already have to take pain medications after taking the vaccine...I wouldn't be comfortable putting using that vaccine without much wider testing. Fortunately I don't need to though, because soon we'll probably have 2 great vaccines to choose from.

Post by nradov » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:49 PM UTC

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jdndbfbf wrote: post #140

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I'll let you test it for me and find out what the long term effects are.

From what I've read ~20% of COVID cases end up with some long term affect, some of which are quite bad and could be permanent. While the vaccine also probably has risks, I personally would rather take my chances with the vaccine instead of infection. At the very least, the vaccine seems less likely to kill me in the very short term.

Post by jdndbfbf » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #154

jdndbfbf wrote: post #140

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I'll let you test it for me and find out what the long term effects are.

I'll take my chances. My sister-in-law is dead. A brother-in-law is still unsure if we can talk across a room without fainting (6 months ago he was running several miles a day). This is just in my tiny circle of close family. Thousands in a much larger sample of had the vaccine with no side effects anywhere near that bad.