No, the vaccine data are black and white. We're approaching 5 billion doses administered with minimal serious adverse effects. Compare the rates to MMR, DPT or anything else given in the billions to the world.
Conversely, some 95% of covid deaths are unvaccinated. It works. Get it and help everyone around you.
If you look at some real-world vaccine efficacy data, you will find that it is far from black and white. In the UK, with delta infections, there is no observable risk reduction against death for under 50s.
It doesn't matter if the side-effects are minimal, what matters is that the risk/reward benefit pays off. For instance, we still don't know the complete extent to which Pfizer vaccines cause heart issues. There are many cardiac events that aren't clearly linked to the vaccine, because they could have occurred by chance. That doesn't mean they aren't linked though.
Here's some statistically significant numbers out of Israel, showing an increase in lethal cardiac events in certain population groups:
If we put this putative risk against the vanishingly small risk of a lethal covid infection in a young person with no risk factors, the vaccine doesn't necessarily come out on top.
In the case of viral-vector vaccines, even the very rare (but often fatal) TTS alone suggests that such vaccination is not indicated for people under 60 in Australia:
> Conversely, some 95% of covid deaths are unvaccinated.
This is a meaningless number. It depends on how many people are vaccinated and when you started counting. In the UK, roughly half of the recent COVID deaths are in the fully vaccinated, though they are also obviously older. In the under-50 group, there is no difference, like I said.
> Get it and help everyone around you.
This is another fallacy, because the vaccine prevents neither infection nor transmission reliably. If you have reason to believe the vaccine gives you a meaningful reduction in risk, get it to protect yourself. If you want to protect others, adjust your behavior. Get tested and avoid close interactions with lots of people. In either case, don't ask me to take a risk for your or anyone else's benefit.
> In the UK, with delta infections, there is no observable risk reduction against death for under 50s
I am really not sure how you reached this conclusion from the 44 page paper you linked. That paper explicitly says that being vaccinated reduces risk of becoming infected, and only mentions that Ct values (detectable virus) are similar in infected people whether they are vaccinated or not, but similar Ct values does not imply similar disease trajectories or outcomes.
> I am really not sure how you reached this conclusion from the 44 page paper you linked.
The data is on page 18/19. In the vaccinated group 13 out of 25,536 infections resulted in death (0.051%). In the unvaccinated group, it's 48 out of 147,612 (0.032%).
> That paper explicitly says that being vaccinated reduces risk of becoming infected.
Perhaps, but then even if you are infected, your risk of death (under 50) is still effectively the same. It's also not clear how big that risk reduction of infection is. It started out at 95% during the trials, Israel last reported 39%:
Conversely, some 95% of covid deaths are unvaccinated. It works. Get it and help everyone around you.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/modern...