I’m considering Moderna. Moderna also uses mRNA. Would the danger be as great?
I don’t think there is any reason at this point to believe that the danger of what was discussed in the article (if there is indeed any danger) would be any less for the Moderna vaccine.
By the way, there has been a lot of talk about mRNA vaccines (I guess because they sound scary), but the virus vector vaccines (J&J, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V) also use mRNA to get the cells to produce spike protein. Actually, in some ways these vaccines are even more intrusive than the mRNA vaccines because they get the cell’s nucleus to produce the mRNA for the spike protein, while the mRNA just shuttle the mRNA into the cell without ever getting into the nucleus.
If you want to avoid mRNA for the spike protein then you’ve got your attenuated virus vaccines (CoronaVac — PRC, Covaxin — India) and your protein subunit vaccines (Novavax.) But none of these are available in the U. S. as far as I’m aware.
Honestly, I’m not terribly worried about mRNA versus non mRNA vaccines. Whenever you get infected by any virus all the machinery of your cells get hijacked. This happens to us every time we get a cold.
I got the Pfizer vaccine — the very last hold out in my family. Everybody in my family has gotten either Moderna or Pfizer. My 101 y/o grandmother got Pfizer and had no side effects. Same with my 82 y/o father. I had just a little body aches and a very slightly runny nose on the second dose of Pfizer, while my wife had no side effects. For the Moderna vaccine, members of my extended family generally felt sick with flu-like symptoms for about 24 hours after the second dose.