The news headlines will all read 'TGA approved the Pfizer vaccine'. With no more details given... but I have some concerns.
After looking through the 42 page document myself (available here) I've learned from the official TGA report the following.
Just know the risks that you are taking, and you can decide if that's worth it to you.
- The vaccine is on the whole safe and effective in healthy people for 2 months following the second dose.
- The most severe short term risk seems to be anaphylactic reaction, but seems that this is generally rare, treatable and people will recover, and in addition to that a small number of cases of Bells Palsy
- We do not know if it is safe for the long term
- We do not know if it will be effective to give protection beyond 2 months. There were some signs in experiments in monkeys that immunity may quickly decline after 5 weeks.
- We do not know if it may cause autoimmune diseases, as these will usually take some time to develop, this has not been studied.
- We do not know if it will cause fertility issues, it didn't cause fertility issues in rats, but that is no guarantee it won't cause issues in people. People are not the same as rats and medications will often affect us differently !
- We do not know if it will prevent transmission of the virus
- We do not know if it safe for pregnant women or immuno-compromised people.
Just know - that if you do choose to take this vaccine - that the TGA has only provisionally approved it given its safe in the short term, and effective in the short term without any knowledge of long term safety and effectiveness, as well as no knowledge of safety in those who are pregnant or immuno-compromised.
If you take it, know that 2 months down the road you will probably be okay.
BUT you are part of the experiment to find out all those unknowns listed above.
If you're pregnant or immuno-compromised, we don't know if it's safe, so you are part of the experiment to determine that.
If you're pregnant or immuno-compromised, we don't know if it's safe, so you are part of the experiment to determine that.
We don't know if it's going to give people life-long auto-immune conditions or cause other issues down the track. Hopefully it won't, but that is a big untested unknown, so if you take it you are part of the experiment to determine that.
You are also part of the experiment to determine if it's even effective beyond 2 months.
Fear of the unknown is always more scary than the thing itself, that's why the movie 'Jaws' was able to be so terrifying by showing only the fin! When there are so many unknowns it allows you to imagine the worst... whether below that fin is a friendly dolphin or a shark we'll have to wait to find out.. but either way I'm not going to be jumping in the ocean with all the other swimmers who thought 'it's just a dolphin'!
The reality is these risks are very real possibilities. I personally choose not to take the unknown risk of developing a life-long auto-immune condition where my body starts attacking itself, some may choose to take that risk. Others may like to take a middle-of-the-road approach and wait a year and see what other long-term safety data comes out.
I'm interested to research auto-immune conditions and possible causes more.. but surely it's not too implausible that injecting something which will get your cells to artificially create something they wouldn't normally (the 'Spike protein' - could end up leading to the body attacking it's own 'defective' cells which are making this weird object they're not supposed to !). If anyone can shed more light on how that works happy to hear it.
In addition to all this, Pfizer the company creating this vaccine is not the most trustworthy company. See Violation tracker - they are a company which is not unwilling to lie and bribe to increase profits.
There is also a concern raised by TheNNT.com that the data as to how many people received Covid tests in each group (vaccine and placebo) has not been revealed... it is possible that the trial has not been run honestly and had excessively more tests given in those who were given the placebo, and pushing up the efficacy rate to 95%. this is another unknown, and the fact that the data was omitted makes it look a bit suspicious
"What we are concerned about: We are very concerned about data mentioned exclusively in an FDA briefing document (p.42) describing 3410 ‘suspected but unconfirmed’ cases of COVID-19, including 1594 vaccine and 1816 placebo subjects. This statistic points to a critical, but missing, datapoint: the number of symptomatic subjects PCR-tested for COVID-19 in each group. As per the study protocol (p89) all subjects should have been tested. However, neither the published manuscript nor the FDA document describes how many in each group were tested or how often." (TheNNT.com)
The reality is these risks are very real possibilities. I personally choose not to take the unknown risk of developing a life-long auto-immune condition where my body starts attacking itself, some may choose to take that risk. Others may like to take a middle-of-the-road approach and wait a year and see what other long-term safety data comes out.
I'm interested to research auto-immune conditions and possible causes more.. but surely it's not too implausible that injecting something which will get your cells to artificially create something they wouldn't normally (the 'Spike protein' - could end up leading to the body attacking it's own 'defective' cells which are making this weird object they're not supposed to !). If anyone can shed more light on how that works happy to hear it.
In addition to all this, Pfizer the company creating this vaccine is not the most trustworthy company. See Violation tracker - they are a company which is not unwilling to lie and bribe to increase profits.
There is also a concern raised by TheNNT.com that the data as to how many people received Covid tests in each group (vaccine and placebo) has not been revealed... it is possible that the trial has not been run honestly and had excessively more tests given in those who were given the placebo, and pushing up the efficacy rate to 95%. this is another unknown, and the fact that the data was omitted makes it look a bit suspicious
"What we are concerned about: We are very concerned about data mentioned exclusively in an FDA briefing document (p.42) describing 3410 ‘suspected but unconfirmed’ cases of COVID-19, including 1594 vaccine and 1816 placebo subjects. This statistic points to a critical, but missing, datapoint: the number of symptomatic subjects PCR-tested for COVID-19 in each group. As per the study protocol (p89) all subjects should have been tested. However, neither the published manuscript nor the FDA document describes how many in each group were tested or how often." (TheNNT.com)
Some highlights from the TGA document:
