Toronto Star

Vaccines and the process that led to them are not risky at all

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You are far, far more likely to die from many things than you are from complicati­ons from getting vaccinated: driving, smoking, crossing the street, drinking, owning a gun, the effects of the sun, mosquitoes, or COVID-19, itself. Were the vaccines developed in record time? They were working on a SARS vaccine, but have too few cases to test on.

COVID vaccines had hundreds of thousands of cases to test on, which saved a lot of time.

Also, pharmaceut­ical companies gambled and prepped in advance for high production.

Is that so bad? Is it new technology? The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZenec­a vaccines are made by modifying a mild cold virus to look like the far more dangerous COVID-19.

William Livingston­e, Scarboroug­h

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