[fidgewidge]

The others did a good job of the technical details. The higher level implication is that taking too many of the shots will appear to make you feel better in the short term but create long term internal damage, as the immune system won't fight the virus as effectively/at all and instead will let it get on with replicating.

So it seems the shots convert short term but temporary unpleasantness into long term serious problems - at which point, of course, they will be classed as not vaccine related because they didn't happen immediately.

As such the social implications of this discovery are more of the same. The population will continue to be split into camps that think all vaccines are perfect and reject any link with bad outcomes as not proven, denied by public health so it must be false. Public health bodies will continue refusing to break down incidence data by vaccine status, or will do so in fudged ways by redefining what "vaccinated" means. Other people will observe long term disparate outcomes between people who had lots of shots and others who had none, but if they try to speak about what they see they'll be shut down, told it's just anecdotes and not data and maybe fired. Polarization will continue to spiral.

Overall: this finding is bad, and the long term implications are bad.