More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    That’s because most of the groundwork in developing mrna vaccines had already been done for years and years. This wasn’t “how do we invent a vaccine for covid?”, this was “how do we adapt this proven, well-understood vaccine tech so that it works for covid just like it does for the ebola virus that we originally developed it for?”

    • OminousOrange@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      There was also a large amount of money thrown at developing the vaccine because of the virus’ significant economic impacts.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        it’s wild because it was a whole bunch of our money but somehow the vaccine developed with all of our money is still privately owned

        • BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Imagine if we had national bodies developing drugs to treat health problems rather than private companies developing drugs to make as much money as possible.

          • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            instead we have this amazing worst of both worlds where the public bears all the expense but one guy trying to make as much money as possible gets to make all the decisions and own the final product.

      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Thats the answer to the bit where they said “how do we adapt this proven, well understood vaccine tech…”