>hmmm... this method of vaccination has never been used in an approved vaccine.

Yes, frightening isn't it? Anyone else worried that we're going WAY too fast with vaccine business? Typical development time is 5-10 years now down to less than a year? Its insane to me but yeah I get it, people are so sick of masks they might be willing to accept _any_ vaccine, efficacious or not.

We almost owe Trump a thank you for saying "lets get this out by October 31st" (almost, but not really). The media predictably took the opposite stance as Trump as it always does and now we're beginning to have much needed discussion on the safety risks of rushing a vaccine. Vaccine safety is a topic that is rarely talked about (mostly due to censorship) and frankly, even suggesting such a topic gets you called an "anti-vaxxer". Clown world.

> vaccine business

Key phrase here. Cui bono? It just so happens there are multiple, patented competing technologies hoping to get approved. The biggest advertising spenders for the media. The media hyping up a 'vaccine.' Governments handing over hundreds of billions of dollars to private corporations so they can race to release a newly patented product that they're hoping will be forced on literal billions of people.

No, it's totally all above board.

You’ll find that’s the case for several of the front runners.

Plenty of medicines were new and then removed from the market.

Being cautious about new techniques seems reasonable, given the history of medicine. (And frankly, a lot of other fields)

It would be nice to be able to say this new vaccine is based on existing methods that we know from years of experience are very safe; but we can't for this candidate. That doesn't make it less safe (or more safe), but it makes the risk more unknown.

There's nothing inherently safe about injecting stuff into humans. There's nothing inherently crazy about questioning if injecting specific things into people is safe.

Vaccines on the market today are only safe because they've been studied and trialed extensively. Many vaccines, doses, additives, etc have and will continue to be proven to not be safe.

A recent example of an approved vaccine which may have caused deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy

LOL! Pointing out that an unfamiliar vaccine technology has never been used before is now officially anti-vax fear mongering.

I swear the pro vaxxers are as much of a cult now as the anti vaxxers. I've been attacked so many times for simply saying that I would wait a while for results before trusting a rushed vaccine, especially one that has a massive financial upside for the creator.

I mean you could check the other comments under that one to see that it's a deliberate trigger for anti-vax fearmongering.

It's one thing to be skeptical, it's another to be a denier. If you can't pick up on the cues then you'll never be able to fight misinformation.

"New" medicines have been tested for years before they're used on a large scale.

That's right, testing is part of scientific medicine.

Once it's been through the usual tests and we have some idea of efficacy and understand how to manage the side effects, it will be approved for use.

How to manage the short-term side effects. Testing for long-term ones cannot be done quickly.