I’m not an anti-vaxxer, but vaccines that were rushed to market have a spotty track record. Look at the one before the 1976 election.
Let’s look at a lot of things a half century ago and use them to not make progress. Hell DC 10s were crashing all over the place in the late 1970s so let’s all decide to never get on another airplane. That’s a really good idea. Maybe we could all go back to horse and buggies.
That is such a wonderful red herring. Something didn’t work last millennium. So we won’t take any steps forward now.
I think the problem with the 1976 vaccine was it was rushed out before all of the proper phase clinical trials were completed.
In this case, when the vaccines are ready, the vaccines (but for the Russian one) will only be given after they successfully go through all three phases for safety and efficacy. There will also be a phase 4 which is designed to carefully identify any issues while administering the vaccine to the general population.
The vaccines are not rushed. The production of the vaccines now is what’s speeding the process, and that doesn’t work against safety at all.
They’re going through all of the required trials and other tests before FDA approval. The reports so far (late in the testing process) show that test results are far better than expected. mRNA vaccines have been in development and testing for a long time.
The reason that the general public hasn’t seen much information about them, is that makers have been trying to keep trade secrets from competitors while developing them.
Would you like to see a surprisingly effective treatment for cancer? That’s one of the other mRNA development efforts that has been under way for a long time. mRNA vaccines will be more specific when causing antibodies to be produced, and that’s one thing that will make them safer.
There’s nothing to fear from mRNA. They do their temporary job before being cleaned up. mRNA are always at work naturally in our bodies but not all as safely as mRNA for a specific vaccination.