COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals ( pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )

ringwraithfish , 4 months ago

Eli5?

yogthos OP , 4 months ago

It's a large scale study looking for adverse effects of the covid vaccines. TLDR is that there are some adverse affects that are worse investigating further, but overall vaccines are largely safe.

catloaf , 4 months ago

tl;dr:

our study confirmed previously identified rare safety signals following COVID-19 vaccination

aleph , 4 months ago

And the side effects are rare and statistically pose less risk than being unvaccinated and contracting the actual virus.

How is this news?

catloaf , 4 months ago

Really it's just confirmation of what we were pretty sure of all along.

That won't stop people from lying about it, of course.

SkaveRat , 4 months ago

it's important to check up on previously made estimations and see how well they hold up.

Might result in "oh shit, we missed something important" or "good to know we were right, now we have an even better foundation for the next studies"

aleph , 4 months ago

Oh absolutely, but as a news item it's a little uneventful.

On the other hand, I suppose it's good to know that the scientific process is still there, ticking away in the background.