What is worse: Side Effects of Covid Vaccine or the Covid-19?
One of the frequent comments from the hesitant unvaccinated Americans is that they need more data to be sure that the Covid vaccines are safe. No vaccine is absolutely safe and various side effects in healthy volunteers have been reported in the vaccine related clinical trials. However, there is pre-ponderance of evidence that the adverse events associated with Covid-19 are far greater (including death), than the adverse effects of the Covid vaccine. A recent paper from Israel caught my attention and is the subject of this blog. The study was published in the “New England Journal of Medicine”, one of the most prestigious peer reviewed medical journals. As I scanned the table of content of my September 16 issue, I quickly jumped to the paper titled “Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting” by Dr. Barda and his colleagues and the accompanying editorial. . This large observational study was carried out in Israe...