"This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. But "vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body," he said. "Medicines you take every day can cause side effects" that reveal themselves over time, including long-term problems as levels of the drug build up in the body over months and years, Goepfert said. Unlike many medications, which are taken daily, vaccines are generally one-and-done. Here's why, starting with the way vaccines work, continuing through strong evidence from vaccine history and the even stronger evidence from the responses of people who have received COVID-19 vaccines worldwide during the past six months.
And 26% of respondents in a survey of parents with children ages 12-15 by the Kaiser Family Foundation in April 2021 said they wanted to “wait a while to see how the vaccine is working” before deciding to get their child vaccinated.īut do we already know enough to be confident the COVID vaccines are safe? Yes, Goepfert said. Nearly a quarter (23%) of respondents in Gallup surveys in March and April 2021 said they wanted to confirm the vaccine was safe before getting the shot. The majority of Americans who haven't been vaccinated - or who say they are hesitant about vaccinating their children - report that safety is their main concern.
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And decades of vaccine history - plus data from more than a billion people who have received COVID vaccines since December 2020 - both provide powerful proof that there is little chance that any new dangers will emerge from COVID vaccines. Vaccines, given in one- or two-shot doses, are very different from medicines that people take every day, potentially for years, Goepfert says.
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“A 90% decrease in risk of infections and 94% effectiveness against hospitalization for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is fantastic,” he said.īut what makes vaccine experts such as Goepfert confident that COVID vaccines are safe in the long-term? We all have seen billboards and TV infomercials from law firms seeking people harmed by diet drugs or acid-reflux medicines for class-action lawsuits. In his nearly 30 years studying vaccines, UAB’s Paul Goepfert, M.D., director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic, has never seen anything as effective as the three COVID-19 vaccines - from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson - available in the United States.