how can the long term consequences of the vaccine be better understood than the virus? The vaccine is younger than the virus, and orders of magnitude of more people have had the virus.
A five second search finds papers on mRNA vaccines from 2018. I see no papers on Covid prior to 2019. In relative terms, as the parent comment was using, we have been studying them longer.
I am not arguing that they are well understood, but I imagine most people are filling in that word when they read the comment.
We've researched coronaviruses since the 1960s, had MERS and SARS most recently (less recent the 2018). I don't understand why we worry about long term effects of Covid, but not long term effects of mRNA vaccines? Both seem to have things to worry about, with both having different scales.
why do we get to generalize mRNA vaccines, but not SARS-Cov-2? We've known about coronaviruses since the 1960s, we've had MERS, SARS, and other more recent ones.
"Up until November 2020, no mRNA vaccine, drug, or technology platform, had ever been approved for use in humans, and before 2020, mRNA was only considered a theoretical possibility for effective use in human"
