How do we know there aren't long term side effects?
a) A virus that is known to cause severe disease in a significant proportion of people, including months-long serious health effects, hospitalisation and death.
b) A virus chosen because it doesn't causing any ill-effects in humans, modified to take on some non-harmful aspects of virus a) and found to not cause any significant harm in tens of thousands of people over several months.
Which is more likely to cause long-term side effects?