[dwaltrip]

I learned something very interesting the other day. Historically, virtually all cases of vaccine side effects occur in the first few months. I honestly can't believe I haven't seen this more widely discussed. It makes the concerns about "long-term safety data" mostly moot. By now, we have plenty of the relevant safety-critical data that we need for the covid vaccines.

Here is the director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic discussing the issue [1]:

> “Vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body,” Goepfert said. “This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn’t expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine.”

> “The side effects that we see occur early on, and that’s it,” Goepfert said. “In virtually all cases, vaccine side effects are seen within the first two months after rollout.”

[1] https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...