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All drugs have adverse side effects. The idea is the "therapeutic index" being the ratio of the good to the bad. In this case, balancing the risk of the vaccine against the reality of all the deaths that covid is causing.

Waiting for a zero risk vaccine is not the optimal decision.

But waiting for a reasonably safe and risk-free vaccine is, which is the point of the trials.

it is also true that this does not mean that this vaccine will not be the reasonably safe and risk-free one

The situation in Sweden suggests that any serious risk model cannot accept a wide scale vaccine solution within a near time window.

Not everyone. Just the ones who thought it was a good idea to get injected with a rushed vaccine.

And this is why trials must be allowed to run their course, not use vaccines as political propaganda, like what the Russian gangster and the orange clown are doing for their own political gains.