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

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

  • Dazawassa@programming.devEnglish
    242·
    8 months ago

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

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
      English
      321·
      8 months ago

      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.caEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

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

        • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
          English
          15·
          8 months ago

          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.worldEnglish
            5·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
              English
              7·
              8 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.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 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.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      They’ve been developing it since the first SARS.

      Poem

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

    • WuTang @lemmy.ninjaEnglish
      319·
      8 months ago

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

      Come ON! This doesn’t say the vaccine - which one? - is effective but would have low adverse effects.

      Not astonished that you put people against this experimental product in the case of anti-vax despite them being vaccinated for other stuff.

        • wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          21·
          8 months ago

          It’s not hard. He’s saying that this study makes no claims about effectiveness, but people are so programmed with the catchphrase “safe and effective” that they conflate the two.