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Billions of people vaccinated with MRNA technology, nobody grew extra arms or turned into The Thing, and by all (credible) accounts very little harm done, especially compared to having COVID.
We finally have evidence of a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. One of the most notoriously difficult diseases to treat that we have.
But “it could harm some people” is being weaponized by the willfully ignorant as a cudgel. If we pushed so no harm to its absolute we wouldn’t be able to do any medicine, it’s why for thousands of years we’ve had experts use their judgement to determine what would be worse for the patient.
Realistically there were a few people whose heart conditions were affected, we did studies and it was a low amount. But that’s why we do studies, and that’s why doctors prescribe these things based on risk factors.
The thing is, other countries will research it and get it to work. All this does is insure that we fall behind in yet another industry.
I work at an IT company that handles VAERS info.
Fun fact that I wish had been more widely broadcast during the Pandemic:
We were 100% sure the Moderna mRNA COVID vax was safe for pregnant women the very first day it was approved for general use.
How?
During the initial "first responders only" phase, when only EMTs, doctors, and nurses were getting vaccinated, there were several thousand women who had recently become pregnant but were not yet aware of it. Once they learned of their status, of course they were tracked much more closely.
So we had a "natural experiment" at a scale far larger than most stage-3 human trials, of how the vaccine affects pregnant women and their babies.
Executive summary: it prevents the mom and the baby from getting super sick, from having complications, and from death.
IOW, while RFK is blocking pregnant mothers from getting mRNA vaccines due to health concerns and demanding studies, THE STUDIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE