I admit, I'd be one of the wary ones
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dr. Fauci: “Don’t worry, your friend is only mostly dead”
Even before this report, a poll shows a 15% drop in confidence in the safety of that vaccine after the federal “pause”. From 57 to 32 percent.
The rest of the poll makes me think that we’re going to have a hard time reaching whatever vaccination percentage Dr. Fauci decides is the appropriate one on any given day of the week:
In the YouGov poll, 58 percent of respondents said they believe the two-dose Pfizer vaccine is safe, while 19 percent said it’s unsafe and 24 percent said they don’t know.
A total of 59 percent said they believe Moderna’s shot is safe, 18 percent said it’s unsafe and 23 percent said they don’t know.
“These figures are effectively unchanged from the previous survey on February 27, indicating that concerns over one vaccine do not spill over to affect other vaccines,” the survey states.
59 percent isn’t all that much in the grand scheme of herd immunity because 23% of the (adult?) population has already been vaccinated, and presumably, most of them are in the confident cohort. That leaves a huge percentage of doubters, and tales of strokes and death aren’t going to do much to move them to the confident side.