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Safety is not a binary condition. The vaccines have a good safety profile as confirmed through large-scale clinical trials, and have met stringent FDA criteria. However the risk isn't zero. The CDC has acknowledged a small risk of myocarditis for the mRNA vaccines.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...

This isn't generally a reason to avoid vaccination for most of the population, however the risk / benefit ratio may be different for some sub-populations. In particular there has been a higher than expected rate of adverse cardiac events for adolescent males.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...

So particularly for those adolescents who have already recovered from infection and have no other risk factors we should have a scientific discussion about whether vaccination makes sense from an evidence-based medicine perspective. Unfortunately the issue has been so politicized that any suggestion of caution often gets misinterpreted as being anti-vaccination.



More people will die waiting unvaxxed for their antibody results than will die from vaccine side effects. Please use real numbers when you talk about vaccine side effects.


The real numbers are in the links I posted above, as well as this CDC presentation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...


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What a bizarre, deranged accusation. The CDC is hardly anti-vaxx. Rather the opposite


The CDC isn't making the claim that the vaccines kill people. You are.


Stop lying. I made no such claim.




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