Will you be getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

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It’s looking like this vaccine will be here sooner rather than later. I’m not sure how I feel about it to be honest.

Will you be getting the vaccine?
YABU - YES
YANBU - NO

🤦‍♀️ some of the comments on here!

It’s shocking how easy people forget about what happened to some of the kids with the swine flu vaccine.

So for me I won’t be having nor will my kids. I’ll wait and see what happens to every one else 👍

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses

There are several types that cause illness in humans

Coronaviruses usually cause mild cold symptoms. We will have all been exposed and carried a coronavirus at some point

The sars cov 2 coronavirus causes Covid 19

There is no ‘the coronavirus’ and they haven’t been battling to make a vaccine against ‘the coronavirus’ for 20 years

Covid 19 was only identified in December.. and they have been working on a vaccine ever since.

Research in the U.K. is governed by something called good clinical practice and was influenced by the nuremburg trials after the nazis experimented on Jews and other prisoners

research protocols are so tightly controlled that we have to report if any participant gets so much as conjunctivitis or a common cold

They are not rushing a vaccine. The same guidelines and rules apply to the Covid 19 vaccine as they would any other trial drug. The only difference is that major pharmaceutical companies are involved and billions is being spent on creating a vaccine - this is why it’s happening so fast!

No way, surprised how many will.

Our grandparents had to fight in the war or send their husbands and sons to fight for the greater good. All we have to do is have one small injection. Yes I will be having it.

Yes

Yes. Without a doubt I will get a vaccine as soon as it is offered to me. I hope the Oxford vaccine is successful but I will accept whatever vaccine works.

Our grandparents had to fight in the war or send their husbands and sons to fight for the greater good. All we have to do is have one small injection. Yes I will be having it.

I completely agree with your point but your first sentence made me giggle. My grandparents were born in 1944, they didn't fight in any war

Codexdivinchi seems to have gotten some wires crossed somewhere with regard to coronaviruses in general and the current prominent coronavirus, Covid-19.

Totally agree with you OP and friends. When will they understand that we don’t need experts?!

No chance

I wouldn't have it, but if I did I would carefully independently research the company that produced it. Many of these pharmaceutical companies have had persistent fines of millions.

www.drugwatch.com/manufacturers/astrazeneca/

I think it's a moot point tbh. Didn't they say that at most they'll be able to produce 20 billion doses next year? For the whole world? As a relatively young adult with no known medical conditions I don't think I'd be able to access it even if I wanted to.

No!

*2 billion not 20

@Rebelwithallthecause

I’m also very nervous at the news reports in the bbc last week of the adverse reaction to one of the trials in the U.K.

I think there’s been a small number but it still needs so much more testing before it can be deemed safe

Subjects in vaccine trials having potential reactions to vaccines is not unusual. I'm sure you've looked at other trials to understand what the procedure is? Yes?

Yes?

The idea that corners are being skipped here is utter, utter nonsense. The fact is, if you throw money and resources at something you speed things up. It's a simple as that.

Boingy- it’s a major reaction this one and as my following post said - these can be hidden and not react for years.
So there’s no real knowing if this reaction is a one off or something that can be triggered further down the line after having it

And I didn’t even say corners were being skipped, just that it’s a pretty terrible reaction and that person (One of a few it seems who have had the reaction ) will never have a normal life again

You can blame them after what happened to Tuskegee Syphilis Study

I'm old and this was before I was born. And ethics have come a long way. And it was LACK of treatment in that example. So really pretty unrelated to what we're discussing. Dreadful but no more informative than what the Germans or Japanese did to prisoners during the war.

I'm a key worker so I may be middling on the list. I'll have it to protect my clients. DD may or may not depending on the situation at the time.

The BMJ paper and comments would be worth a ready for anyone who doesn’t know enough about the current trials www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3525/rapid-responses

My reluctance is not really because of the apparently rushed timescale (although On the face of it that seems worrying) but because I cannot think of another vaccine that we would willingly inject into ourselves (or our children) for a disease for which you have an enormously high statistical chance of having very mildly.

Every vaccine we give our children protects them against a disease that is a direct threat to them. A positive side effect is that it provides herd immunity to the vulnerable/those not able to vaccinate. Are people really so willing to risk the (albeit small) chance of side effects?

Yes, I shall be having it as soon as I'm able if it means I can actually live my life again rather than this pointless, joyless existence I'm living now.

[quote Rebelwithallthecause]The BMJ paper and comments would be worth a ready for anyone who doesn’t know enough about the current trials www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3525/rapid-responses[/quote]
They haven't yet confirmed whether or not the affected individual was in the control group!

I am a pharmacology student. Almost everything you have said so far is a load of balls. Please put the conspiracy theory websites down for a moment and get some fresh air, or something.

I've already told my GP that we want it ASAP.

Oh - and of course I'd get it, if I could. My legs and immune system are already proper frakked, why would I risk my lungs as well?