This is actually an excellent point that is not made often enough. Most vaccine trials are done over years, so they have smaller numbers because more people get infected. The COVID-19 trials are VASThttps://twitter.com/dfreedman7/status/1331699376419459072 …
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Worth noting here that when I say "long-term" I really mean "only diagnosed after 6 months". By the time vaccines are rolled out, we'll have at least 6 months of follow-up data so anything that you'd expect to be picked up in that time-frame should show some signal
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The real worry is chronic diseases that take years to be diagnosed, but that's not the same as serious chronic issues that start immediately after vaccination (which is what people often worry about)
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And this sort of problem tends to be incredibly rare in terms of vaccines. I actually can't think off the top of my head of an example, although I'm sure they exist. Anyone?
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How often is it the case that a vaccine is shown to have long-term side effects? are vaccine side effects typically short-term or long-term?
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Most vaccine side-effects are short term and acute, but there are chronic ones that may take time to diagnose
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I hope there's an ethical and social contract discussion long-term that sprouts out of this. If this can be done in this way, why are we not focusing our capital on health?
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As much as I want to get behind these vaccines I think that long COVID is a cause for concern in this respect.
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