Someone is telling me the COVID-19 vaccines given to people are experimental and wants to know who’s telling people they’re not experimental. They’re not experimental, right?
garry
its been approved now , no long experimental , works on 90% of the people safely it has 9% side effects and 1% serious side effects , same as all vaccinations . Any worries then should read there report at there website .
The First Dragon
Well, no, they would not be classified as experimental at this time. Still, they have not been in use very long, so it is possible that effects will arise that nobody anticipated. For one thing, these are the FIRST vaccines ever successfully made for any coronavirus. It was pretty hard to figure out. They have been trying for years actually, though not as hard as recently. They make a different flu shot every year, but they are only slightly different from former flu shots. This is quite new.
I am not so much concerned about the safety of the vaccines, as the unethical means of making them.
Blocking Back
This type of vaccine has never been used before. The theory behind it sounds reasonable but the same was said about Thalidomide, blood letting, global cooling, spontaneous generation, etc.
This disease has a >99% survival rate if you are reasonably healthy. I can wait to see if there are any effects 5 years or so down the road.
Lab Guy
Yes and no. The normal process of FDA "approval" usually take about 5 years and it takes advantage of those 5 years in gathering data on specific patient populations, safety, and efficacy. It incorporates three phases of study over those five years.
Now because of the medical emergency "authorization" for release of a vaccine is granted under a EUA which must submit a minimum three phase clinical trials similar to the regular approval but the time was condensed thus limiting more extensive study of select populations like the young kids and limited its ability to study the longer term safety profile which is nowhere near the five years compared to the standard vaccine approval. The time of the study was condensed in order to get the vaccine out fast.
Vaccine companies have to submit their studies (phaseI, II, III) in order to get "approval" for "authorization" under the "Emergency Use Authorization".
If granted approval then they must continue to collect data post release of the vaccine in order to fill in the complete safety and efficacy profile to try and get it the standard approval process going and complete.
Some companies have already started studying pediatric patients for them to get approval for its release to that population. Some post release studies have already shown that the people out there are showing similar efficacy levels that were seen in the phase 3 study. Millions of people have already been given the vaccine and people are not dying left and right from the vaccine. The only way to definitively answer the long term safety consequences of the vaccine is to study it long term which by definition requires time, months and years. So far so good.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained#:~:text=An%20Emergency%20Use%20Authorization%20(,COVID%2D19%20pandemic.
Felonious Monkey
The Covid vaccines have been through clinical trials so they're not experimental. But no vaccine has ever been developed and approved on such a short timeline, so in a sense we're still learning about side effects and long term effects.
That being said, foregoing the vaccine is statistically more dangerous than taking it.