Every morning in Africa, as the sun rises, a gazelle wakes up and knows it will have to outrun the lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, as the sun rises, a lion wakes up and knows it will have to outrun the gazelle or it will starve. Every morning in Africa, as the sun rises, it doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, the important thing is that you start running. According to some, this is an old African proverb; according to others, a quote from a 1974 book by Ethiopian journalist and writer Abe Gubenga. Who knows what the truth is. Today, probably, this phrase would be used to tell the daily race between no vax and scientists. The former spend their time creating hoaxes about vaccines and spreading them; the latter, in addition to studying, must also worry about denying them.
Recently the ISS (Higher Institute of Health) published a vademecum to try to refute the non vax nonsense. Will it be of any use? Maybe. Still, it's worth a try.
1) The vaccines were produced too quickly and the short- and long-term effects are unknown.
For the vaccine against SarCov-2, exactly as has always happened for all drugs, the experts of the Higher Institute of Health explain, authorization studies are carried out on tens of thousands of people. Once in use, agencies collect any reports of adverse effects temporally related to vaccination. If any of these effects did not occur during the experimental phase, a thorough investigation is made to verify the causal relationship with the vaccine. If this happens, the "new" adverse effect is indicated in the "leaflet". This is the phase called "post marketing pharmacovigilance".
2) The vaccines in circulation are experimental.
A definition, explains the ISS, is already wrong on its own: only those drugs for which marketing authorization has not yet arrived are experimental. As for Covid-19 vaccines, the authorization has come a long time ago. Not only that: recently the FDA, the US government agency that monitors, among other things, drugs, gave the Pfizer vaccine a "normal" authorization after initially being granted emergency use.
