- Joined
- May 30, 2011
- Messages
- 17,971
- Reaction score
- 34,521
Offline
My wives case is very likely rare. My concern isn’t necessarily my wife...she’s getting better. She still intends to get vaccinated next year. She would have repeat the cycle or go with a higher potency J&J vaccine this year, and with the pretty good efficacy from a single dose of Moderna we figured it wasn’t worth it this year.I guess the question is how rare or not rare this is and whether there is correlation or causation going on here. There is good evidence so far that what happened to your wife is the exception and far outside the norm. This doesn't mean it shouldn't be researched more. But it also doesn't mean that there's something necessarily wrong with the vaccine itself. I agree more research is needed to deal with things that might crop up with people who have unusual reactions to the vaccine. That's the case with any vaccine or drug.
My concern isn’t necessary with adult women, it’s pregnant women, nursing mothers, women trying to get pregnant, and children. I think that those subgroups would benefit from a trial. I would like to get our children vaccinated, though they are a low risk group regarding COVID, but I’m going to wait until they are able to get a good informed consent without doing so.