Flagged for anti-vaxx propaganda. It's disgusting how this crap ends up on HN. dang needs to ban the "people" who are spamming this.
Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine
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Right, I believe the messaging around vaccines exacerbates the issue too. Especially with mrna covid-19 vaccines, the condescending tone used by the CDC and media outlets while implying no safety risks throw people off. If you don't upfront say there's some risk and explain it it gives room for antivaxxer propaganda that builds on those doubts. IMHO, the media campaigns for the mRNA vaccines did the opposite of that.…
> All existing vaccines have risk, however they're at least a factor off 100 safer mRNA vaccines are qualitatively different, though, not just slightly further on a sliding scale. The only risks AFAIK are from the delivery mechanism and the immune response; the payload itself is, well, mRNA molecules, which can't produce pathogens at all.
> The only risks AFAIK are from the delivery mechanism and the immune response
Which is a risk. The mRNA vaccines AFAICT are somewhere around a factor 100x safer than covid-19 for the general population. I hope research gets published that get that number more accurate.
Also, it seems risks like myocarditis stem from the lack of common best practices around the delivery mechanism like dosing and hopefully could be reduced.