• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Also, these vaccines were not developed in under a year. There was literally several DECADES of research and testing on coronavirus vaccines (anyone remember SARS), and mRNA / adenovirus vaccine tech.

    Saying these were rushed is a flat out lie.

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      1 year ago

      They were rushed in that they did rush to accelerate the development- largely through increased funding. However, that does not make them unsafe. Of course investing more into research can generally speed it up.

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        The only thing that was accelerated was the scale of the tech infrastructure and the testing to target this specific variant of coronavirus. Coronavirus vaccines, and the modern technology to deliver the vaccines, was developed and piloted long before the COVID 19 started floating around.

        We were lucky AF.

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          When I looked into it when the vaccines were rolling out, I read that the technology was already used in cancer treatments. I decided that if it’s safe enough to not kill one of the most immunocompromised groups in the world, it’s probably safe enough for me.