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Originally Posted by Fish
It's a novel virus being treated with a new type of vaccine technology, that was created via emergency authorization because it was a global pandemic that has since killed over 4.5M people globally with the actual total being much more than that. Decisions made in the first few months of the pandemic were made on data that was barely weeks old. They were making decisions on the best info they had, which was basically nothing. They had to be cautious. What the experts know now is incomparable to what they knew 1yr ago or more when leaders were forced to make decisions.
Still, the results speak for themselves. We've now vaccinated over half the global population. Still no obvious dangers at all, with well proven effectiveness against hospitalization and death.
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Totally understand all of that, and agree. There was insufficient data to guide a lot of decisions early on. I still think vaccines are useful. However, I do have a few minor counterpoints here:
1) The vaccine I am referring to is the Janssen vaccine (Johnson and Johnson), which is not using mRNA. It's more traditional than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
2) The two articles that I linked to in my original post were written on 7/8/2021 and 7/20/2021. Granted the Delta variant is newer, but I would hope for better consistency in the publication of attention grabbing headlines. Because sadly, that is about as far as most people read these days.
I think my biggest concern is the lack of interest in knowing which vaccine I had and when. It seems like that would be critical information to have in evaluating real-world effectiveness in a vaccine. Perhaps they feel they have enough data? I dunno.