First let me say I am not an anti-vaxxer.

We are anxious to be vaccinated against COVID-19.  My question is how safe is a vaccine that has been rushed to be approved? Today’s LA Times brings up some of my issues about taking the vaccine.

The Covid-19 vaccines have not been tested in the frail elderly, many of whom are residents of long-term care facilities.

Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, is supporting frontline workers who will administer Covid-19 vaccinations to be first in line for a vaccination. Moore said, “There’s a question about the direct benefit of the vaccine, if given to people who live in those facilities, because we haven’t studied how well it works in that group yet.”  That concern led Dr. Helen “Keipp” Talbot, of Vanderbilt University to vote against giving them a priority to obtain a vaccination.

That concern leads me (I am not an epidemiologist) to ask what groups of people were included in the phase 3 testing of the vaccines? What were the side effects and how many of the vaccine’s recipients experienced those effects?

Until I get the answers to those questions go ahead and push your way in front of me as we stand waiting for an injection.  Call me in a week or two and tell me how you feel.  Thank you.