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Covid vaccines went through the same safety and efficacy trials as every other vaccine.

Covid has a 2%? mortality rate against the immune naive, with a much greater proportion requiring hospitalisation and suffering long term health consequences. I believe that is pretty similar to many other illnesses we vaccinate against.

There are varied and complex reasons for people being anti-vax, but none of them are grounded in science.

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torstenvl4y ago

Phase 1 trials take several months. Phase 2 trials take months to 2 years. Phase 3 trials take 1-4 years.

https://www.fda.gov/patients/drug-development-process/step-3...

In the case of Pfizer-BioNTech, the Phase 3 trial was started before Phase 2 even completed, and was completed in less than 8 months.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04713553

Even with the rather expanded definition of "died while infected with COVID-19," the mortality rate is approximately 1.5% (845627 deaths / 55202306 cases) in the United States, or 25% lower than you claimed.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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