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Quite early in the pandemic, a number of new vaccines were authorized ‘for emergency use’. The key word here is emergency. While big pharma does not have the best reputation for probity, it is still obliged to get involved in a global pandemic treatment. While the efficacy of certain vaccines can be questioned, there is no doubt that many of them offer protection. The level of protection may vary, but these vaccines are now acknowledged by serious scientists as affording a certain level of protection against the most serious impacts of the disease, I.e. death and complicated hospitalisation.
For the simple logic before us lay persons, I believe it is a sensible and minor risk, for individual to get vaccinated with the best vaccine available to them. For some, the better vaccines are available. For others, usually the poor, there is no choice.