[quote purplefig]@MarshaBradyo or have a read of this from well known conspiracy theorists, the British medical journal:
Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us
www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037[/quote]
I’ve just read this and it’s not made me worried about the vaccine. The thrust of it is as per the headline, that it’s basically impossible on this timescale to design a vaccine that is definitely going to save lives in the specific highest risk groups, and that there’s no guarantee on a wider level that it will significantly reduce hospital admissions. But they are pretty confident based on similar flu vaccine outcomes that this will for the case, so they’re pushing ahead with the trials the way they were designed.
But the truth is that the science remains far from clear cut, even for influenza vaccines that have been used for decades. Although randomised trials have shown an effect in reducing the risk of symptomatic influenza, such trials have never been conducted in elderly people living in the community to see whether they save lives.
And yet elderly people get flu vaccines every year because we believe that it does help, despite lack of official trials.
That article didn’t make me think it was unsafe. Just that designing trials is an art in itself to get the results you need.