{"id":17520,"date":"2025-04-28T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17520"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:52:02","slug":"are-covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17520","title":{"rendered":"Are COVID-19 Vaccines Safe and Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;COVID-19 vaccines and boosters have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s12889-024-17790-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proved<\/a>&nbsp;to be highly effective in preventing severe cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A September 2024 review in the journal&nbsp;<em>NPJ Vaccines<\/em>&nbsp;reports that the risk of myocarditis is about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41541-024-00893-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six times greater<\/a>&nbsp;for those who are infected with COVID-19 than for those who are vaccinated. A February 2025 article in the&nbsp;<em>European Heart Journal<\/em>&nbsp;compared patients who experienced post-vaccine myocarditis to those who experienced post-COVID-19 and conventional myocarditis. The researchers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/eurheartj\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehaf091\/8023929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a>&nbsp;that post-vaccine myocarditis patients were less likely to be hospitalized and experienced fewer cardiovascular events.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The most comprehensive analysis of the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is the cohort study of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264410X24001270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">99 million vaccinated individuals<\/a>&nbsp;published in April 2024 in&nbsp;<em>Vaccine<\/em>. The researchers confirmed that the incidences of previously identified rare safety signals following COVID-19 vaccination were quite low.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;By March 2022, Fauci and his colleagues&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jid\/article\/226\/2\/195\/6561438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acknowledged<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;the concept of classical herd immunity may not apply to COVID-19&#8221; in&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Infectious Diseases<\/em>. &#8220;Living with COVID-19 is best considered not as reaching a numerical threshold of immunity, but as optimizing population protection without prohibitive restrictions on our daily lives,&#8221; they concluded. Population protection, among other things, now involves inoculations updated much like seasonal flu vaccines to boost waning antibodies and to counter emerging variants of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Ultimately, Biden&#8217;s 2021 &#8220;summer of freedom&#8221; turns out to have been a fond but illusory hope of a permanent respite from COVID-19. Given this reality, current COVID-19 vaccines are now primarily designed to prevent severe disease and death rather than infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/14\/are-covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/14\/are-covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;COVID-19 vaccines and boosters have proved to be highly effective in preventing severe cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A September 2024 review in the journal NPJ Vaccines reports that the risk of myocarditis is about six times greater for those who are infected with COVID-19 than for those who are vaccinated. A February 2025 article in the European Heart Journal compared patients who experienced post-vaccine myocarditis to those who experienced post-COVID-19 and conventional myocarditis. The researchers found that post-vaccine myocarditis patients were less likely to be hospitalized and experienced fewer cardiovascular events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most comprehensive analysis of the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is the cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals published in April 2024 in Vaccine. The researchers confirmed that the incidences of previously identified rare safety signals following COVID-19 vaccination were quite low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By March 2022, Fauci and his colleagues acknowledged &#8220;the concept of classical herd immunity may not apply to COVID-19&#8221; in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. &#8220;Living with COVID-19 is best considered not as reaching a numerical threshold of immunity, but as optimizing population protection without prohibitive restrictions on our daily lives,&#8221; they concluded. Population protection, among other things, now involves inoculations updated much like seasonal flu vaccines to boost waning antibodies and to counter emerging variants of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Ultimately, Biden&#8217;s 2021 &#8220;summer of freedom&#8221; turns out to have been a fond but illusory hope of a permanent respite from COVID-19. Given this reality, current COVID-19 vaccines are now primarily designed to prevent severe disease and death rather than infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/14\/are-covid-19-vaccines-safe-and-effective\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,1503,811,48,526,925,410],"class_list":["post-17520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-evidence","tag-science","tag-studies","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17521,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions\/17521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}