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PSPS

(13,512 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 12:38 PM Oct 2020

Some Americans concerned about possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccine:"We just don't know enough"

Two major clinical trials for coronavirus vaccines are resuming in the United States, after being paused over safety concerns. Estimates show the earliest time for an approved vaccine could be the end of November. But a recent STAT-Harris poll showed a sharp decrease in the number of Americans who would get a vaccine right away. CBS News senior medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula spoke with a wide-ranging group about their thoughts on a vaccine.

Asked to rank their confidence level in a vaccine on a scale of 1 to 10, California resident Seana-Marie Sesma said 6; fellow Californian Adam Davis said 7.5; Lissi Marshall, a neuroscience college student from Philadelphia, said 7 or 8; Michigan resident Alyssa Kogut, who is diabetic, said 8; and Chad St. Clair, who is from California, said 1 or 2.

St. Clair is adamant he will not get the vaccine, while Kogut said she definitely will. Marshall said she trusts the science but will wait a few months to get a vaccine. Sesma is still unsure due to concerns about potential side effects, and Davis is hesitant but open to it.

"If somehow, after however many months the participants of the preliminary vaccine research start to come out with any side effects … that would definitely change my mind," Marshall told Narula. "I feel that, though the FDA has done the majority of good things, they have also taken products off the market that they approved at one point," Sesma said.

The rest: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-americans-concerned-possible-side-effects/

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Some Americans concerned about possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccine:"We just don't know enough" (Original Post) PSPS Oct 2020 OP
"...[The FDA has] taken products off the market that they approved at one point..." ret5hd Oct 2020 #1
I will take the vaccine one year after it comes out marie999 Oct 2020 #2

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
1. "...[The FDA has] taken products off the market that they approved at one point..."
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 12:54 PM
Oct 2020

Damn that science stuff! Adjusting your actions as new data becomes available! What a bunch of spineless bureaucrats!

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
2. I will take the vaccine one year after it comes out
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 01:22 PM
Oct 2020

but only if very few people have gotten sick or dead from it.

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