Thanks! There is a great deal of misinformation floating around from the anti-vax people, for whom all vaccinations are bad. Those folks push their dangerous ideas on the rest of us. Before vaccinations are released, they have to go through exhaustive safety testing as well as efficacy testing.

If they pass all of the testing, then they are released. The primary problem with the Moderna vaccine is that 2.5 people per million have an allergic reaction. As it occurs within 15 minutes, in ALL cases in the US, it has not resulted in death.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e1.htm
" During December 21, 2020–January 10, 2021, monitoring by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System detected 10 cases of anaphylaxis after administration of a reported 4,041,396 first doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (2.5 cases per million doses administered). In nine cases, onset occurred within 15 minutes of vaccination. No anaphylaxis-related deaths were reported."

The other anti-vax "talking point" is the adverse events reporting system -- where any deaths that occur within hours, days or weeks of the vaccination are reported. These are not verified or even investigated, just reports that someone died some time after a shot.

Approximately 2 million people over 65 die each year in the USA. That is about 5500 per day. And in the last two months since vaccines were available, 155 people died after a covid-19 vaccination (cause not determined).
Remember, right now about 3-4000 of these same folks are dying EVERY DAY from covid-19.

And the current number reported is 1`55 out of 71 million administered jabs. Without investigation yet as to cause effect. If every over 75 person with severe problems watched the same TV show one evening, it would be expected that thousands of old people would die in the next few days. The connection of the adverse events reporting of 155 in a few months is as tenuous as that of watching tv and dying.

I have no idea why the anti-vaccine preachers are so sure they are right. Having grown up when my best friend died at age 10 from a disease that is completely preventable now, having seen several of my school chums permanently damaged from polio, and having suffered through many childhood diseases that now are preventable, and accepting that scientists are the most honest folks we have in our society, I intend to get a vaccination when it is available to me,

Ignore the anti-vax movement and listen to your doctor. What you have to lose if you don't is your life.
Russ

If you are very worried wait for the Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine. It is the more traditional kind of vaccine not these new mRNA ones that people worry about... it will be reported shortly on how effective it is and if it’s good be given emergency use authorization. Perhaps we won’t be able to choose what we get but it’s just a thought if you are very against these new untested types.

FYI - There is a big difference between dying "from" Covid and dying "with" Covid. It isn't like people are dropping like flies. I feel we are almost being held hostage. So much control is being cast upon us.

We are currently around 25K people that have died "from" Covid. Everyone else has an average of 3 co-morbidities. These people could easily die of a coronavirus cold that turns to pneumonia due to poor health. That is why I don't need the vaccine. I would never want to deny anyone of their choice. It is a choice and most people have a higher percentage of beating it with good health (higher than 99%) than the percentage a vaccine is supposedly effective. (95%)

The truth:
"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, ON AVERAGE, there were 2.9 additional conditions or causes per death."

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR0LjDPU3nMA2kH8aovd1LNU60aZoiIiPlXRTR1x04PNO51yA1MHH9cumtg

Stress would play a role in some of this too. Stress and anxiety makes it worse. Our head plays tricks on our health. Someone gets a sore throat or a fever during flu season (which disappeared this year - we went from 80K to almost nothing) and gets tested positive for Covid from a test that can have the Cycle Threshold (CT) adjusted to obtain a false positive. This is the science behind the PCR or RT-PCR tests.

Straight from the inventor of PCR. He won a Nobel prize for the "research tool"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc0Kysti6Kc&list=PLvel4JdPD5HIg4dwNHuv7gqrAUsDr4IWv&index=41&t=1s

That is how they can claim to have so many asymptomatic people walking around spreading. Bunch of nonsense!

Asymptomatic transmission is not a thing:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32513410/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w