New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 years ago

    That's because most of the groundwork in developing mrna vaccines had already been done for years and years. This wasn't "how do we invent a vaccine for covid?", this was "how do we adapt this proven, well-understood vaccine tech so that it works for covid just like it does for the ebola virus that we originally developed it for?"

    • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      There was also a large amount of money thrown at developing the vaccine because of the virus' significant economic impacts.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        it's wild because it was a whole bunch of our money but somehow the vaccine developed with all of our money is still privately owned