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New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

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[–] Dazawassa@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Genuinely impressive how a vaccine made under the conditions and time constraints COVID faced is so effective.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's because most of the groundwork in developing mrna vaccines had already been done for years and years. This wasn't "how do we invent a vaccine for covid?", this was "how do we adapt this proven, well-understood vaccine tech so that it works for covid just like it does for the ebola virus that we originally developed it for?"

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There was also a large amount of money thrown at developing the vaccine because of the virus' significant economic impacts.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it's wild because it was a whole bunch of our money but somehow the vaccine developed with all of our money is still privately owned

[–] BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine if we had national bodies developing drugs to treat health problems rather than private companies developing drugs to make as much money as possible.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

instead we have this amazing worst of both worlds where the public bears all the expense but one guy trying to make as much money as possible gets to make all the decisions and own the final product.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thats the answer to the bit where they said "how do we adapt this proven, well understood vaccine tech..."

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They've been developing it since the first SARS.

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Edit: I was wrong, they started developing MRNA vaccines in the 1970s.