| > How much do the treatments cost? Is it vastly different? An average hospitalization costs $73,000 in the US, according to data collected from insurance claims[1]. That means that a single hospitalization costs the same as vaccinating 2,400 people (using your $30/shot estimate). > How do you know? I thought the only study/data from Pfizer covered 6 months. That's not very long term? Although I'm not an expert, a friend of mine is getting his PhD studying the immune system and explained it to me this way: Any additional risk of mRNA vaccines would (with almost 100% certainty) occur shortly after vaccination[2], theorized to be as a result of a strong(er) immune response. After the immune response has subsided, the vaccinated person's immune system would be hard to distinguish from someone who received a traditional vaccine because the goal of the vaccines is the same: to teach the immune system what the virus looks like[3][4] without actually requiring an active virus. So to put that together, we can be fairly confident in an mRNA vaccine's long-term safety because its long-term effects are similar to other vaccines that we've studied for more than 100 years and because the mechanism of action subsides within a few months[5]. 1. https://www.fairhealth.org/article/costs-for-a-hospital-stay... 2. https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19... 3. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-are-mrna-vaccines-so... 4. https://www.vumc.org/viiii/infographics/how-does-mrna-vaccin... 5. https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k... |