Coronavirus Vaccine Can Prevent 90% Getting Covid-19

[Ellipsis]

Looks promising ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105

Would you take it yet?

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure all thalidomide victims will be pleased to hear there was a low chance of it happening PP.

[Peter Pedant]

// No I wldnt. Not enough testing yet of the vaccine IMO and what if the virus mutates....-a bit pointless then.//

vaxxer twaddle - I wont have covid vaccine coz if it changes so it isnt covid any more- then it wont work
gloss on - I wont have typhoid vacc because it doesnt work against cholera which I might get
Jesus

[Bobbisox1]

Chinajan, the anti - vaxxers should be put at the end of the queue ;)

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm sure all thalidomide victims will be pleased to hear there was a low chance of it happening PP.//

which of course was not a vaccine
I am sure the 250 000 already dead americans are re assured by St Peter saying - well we are not really sure if was safe ....

Thalidomide was warned again by McBride ( later struck off for falsifying debendox data ) Dec 1962 and Lenz gave a very little known estimate in Feb 1963 ( Lancet ) of 1:300 I think

[early in her pregnancy, there is a chance of at least 20% or more to have a baby with birth defects.] - if you give it later there is no effect as the baby is just getting bigger

and that was fifty years ago
and hey ! 100 y ago there werent any antibiotics!

[Khandro]

OG: //You have no idea what the side effects might be.//

Maybe, but you know the effects of NOT having it - the big sleep!

[Apc2604]

I have not recovered yet from awful side affects to my nervous system and my immune system after my last flu Vaccination. November last year. The doctors are now agreeing with me that the Flu Vac was the cause. I have had them for about 15 years with no ill effects. I am now very nervous about the Covid vaccine. It's something I will have to seriously consider.

[benhilton]

No . I would refuse the vaccine .
(....feel free to put me last in a queue that I won't be in...)

[Cloverjo]

I would take it if more deserving cases were first in the queue. Not because I want to test it on them and see what happens, but because they’re more vulnerable to illness and death.

[douglas9401]

Wouldn't -80c make it difficult to inject? A bit soliddy?

Anyway, I'll have an armful please.

[bobbinwales]

It would yes be solid ice if it was tap water and probly frozen solid if disinfectant (Trump refrence) but if its gotten a verry low freezing point it could be a liqiud at -80 and could even be a gas. (at least its what my misses tells me, she use to work in a lab)

[douglas9401]

I don't think it'll be administered at that temperature, bob, I could see one or two problems arising.

[iluvmargie]

What's all the sarcasm about anti-vaxxers, if they are 'anti', why would they suddenly want it if one became available??

[THECORBYLOON]

There will be a mad rush to buy the refrigerators needed to store the vaccines at -80°C.

[jno]

it looks as though if you have to ask the price you can't afford one...

https://www.labcompare.com/General-Laboratory-Equipment/141-minus-80-Freezer-86-Freezer/

[woofgang]

Yes i will take what is advised for me when my cohort are offered it.

[THECORBYLOON]

There's prices here,

https://www.fishersci.co.uk/gb/en/products/I9C8L3QQ/ultra-low-temperature-freezers.html

[jno]

ah, that's okay then, thanks TCL. Less than my Learjet and I could store vodka in it wlonside the vaccines.

[jourdain2]

I'm certainly not an anti-vaxxer (flu jab every year and have had pneumonia and shingles jabs) but I once had a very bad reaction to a 'flu vaccination (it was the year they picked the wrong strain and then I got 'flu as well just to add to the gaiety). I would like to wait until any side-effects were proved because I am now much more vulnerable through age and the arrival of Sudden Onset Adult Asthma - which is proving to be far nastier than I thought, and getting harder to handle.

[Ellipsis]

You trade off waiting and risking catching it while you wait, which if you're unwell could be very nasty/terminal, versus taking it and taking your chances with side-effects at the same time.

[tomus42]

We don't know the possible side effects of the vaccine.
We do know the definite effects of the disease.

I don't have any particular fear of the virus, in that I'm carrying on life as normal within the rules, but I'd probably take the vaccine if offered it.