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I understand that it is too early to call, but are we as a nation reporting and compiling this data?

as the months pass, we get more information

There are a couple of cases of people who have died after the vaccine with strange circumstances. The most well known that I'm aware of is a doctor in Florida who suddenly had his platelet count drop to zero about 4 days after getting the vaccine and died not long thereafter. That's one of those freak reactions that nobody quite has a clue what caused it.

They also monitor you for a minimum of 15 minutes after the vaccine for anaphylaxis. That is a rare but non-zero reaction.

But... We've given 50M doses in this country and we're not hearing horror stories about deaths/hospitalizations. So as far as the short-term side effects, they don't seem to exist.
Really? Sterility?

I mean, I've heard this crap before. Nobody has actually shown it happens. But very few things scare a childless woman of childbearing age more than the idea that she'll never have the ability to have children, so it's a remarkably phenomenal fear tactic.

Apparently it has to do with the idea that there is some very tiny similarity between a protein in the placenta and the spike protein of COVID...

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210112/why-covid-vaccines-are-falsely-linked-to-infertility

But as this article points out, if the vaccine could cause sterility (by virtue of encoding the body to reject the spike protein of COVID and therefore reject a placenta), then actually being infected with COVID would do the exact same thing.

That said, multiple people in the COVID vaccine trial have become pregnant, so it doesn't appear that it has any effect.

But go on spreading conspiracy theories. At least this one is more coherent than the idea that it's Bill Gates injecting microchips.

so, are there past examples of vaccines that caused Sterility?  or other serious issues?  Hospitalizations or death?

I would think if there were, they would be spread around.

I haven't heard of any.

all may be true

the folks I know that are against the idea of taking the shot are the least educated on the subject

I'm not an expert and most folks are not.  Most of what I know about the vaccine I've learned here and from reading articles that have been posted here.

the anti-vaccine folks I've talked to have not read one single article for or against

I've forwarded them some articles and asked them to research a bit, and this small bit of information has changed a few minds.

this doesn't appear to be a mishap or a problem with causing side effects.....  just not as effective as hoped.  And this vs the variant.

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South Africa has temporarily suspended its rollout of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University coronavirus vaccine after a small clinical trial revealed the shot provided only minimal protection from mild and moderate illness caused by the virus variant that is widely circulating in the country.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/08/965390228/why-south-africa-is-putting-the-astrozeneca-vaccine-on-hold

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WHO officials say they are confident that the shot will prevent serious illness and death from the new South African strain, despite a recent study

https://www.wsj.com/articles/astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-defended-by-world-health-officials-11612821292
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this is the misinformation...  they suspended vaccinations, SO... it must be because the vaccine is dangerous.
people leap to this conclusion because... just reading Headlines and not reading the article