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Future CoronaVirus Vaccine Safety


Quick question: a Covid vaccine might be ready in 12-18 months, obviously way faster than the normal 5-10-15 year average. My question is, could a a future corona virus vaccine do more harm than being infected by the virus would have done?

There is no way you can check how it effects people long term, offspring, etc in 12-18 months.

I'm not anti-vax, I have all required vaccines plus all that I could find at a private clinic. But I also know that some vaccines have caused problems in the past.

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It does seem like something that a cautious and prudent person might let other people try out first...
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> could a a future corona virus vaccine do more harm than being infected by the virus would have done?

Possibly. However, consider that tons of really smart and well motivated people are working on it. And that even if a vaccine is determined to work and be ready for rolling out to the general populace that doesn't mean that work on it entirely ceases.