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I'm not anti-vax by any means, but I would rather have 3 months of outcomes from widespread deployment prior to being vaccinated or having my low-risk family members be vaccinated.

That this vaccine is mRNA-based makes it likely safer than some other lightly-tested vaccines, but if you're young, healthy, and at low-risk of serious COVID infection, I'm not sure it's wise to be among the first in line for this vaccine.




Its better for the whole population if you get a vaccine as soon as it becomes generally available instead of becoming a vector in that 3 months.


Yes, of course it is, provided that the vaccine that I take would otherwise go un-given in that 3 month period. That seems unlikely to me as we are likely to be vaccinating as many people as we can manufacture doses during that period and the difference is "which" rather than "how many".

I leave my house about once a week, wearing a mask, to spend 20 minutes grocery shopping. My risk of contracting, contracting and dying from, or contracting and spreading the disease is extremely low and quite possibly lower than leaving that dose for someone else who is leaving their house and being around people more than 4 hours in those 3 months. Bonus is that someone at higher risk gets "my" dose and I get 3 additional months of population-wide study of safety, side-effects, and efficacy.


You're fine then, because the young, healthy and low-risk won't be able to access any vaccine for months after higher-risk people. It's probably closer to a year before the really low-risk people get any.




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