Interesting and rather tragic.

The part about supressing the cause of death was especially gutwrenching. Silencing hurt people out of fear of encouraging nutters is a horrible thing to do.

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    Ah that’s right! I had a brain fart and for some reason was thinking of traditional vaccines. Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein? I’ve forgotten.

    I wonder if the types affect the chance of a reaction for some people or in general

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      Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein?

      • Moderna and Pfizer are mRNA.
      • Novavax is protein subunit.
      • AstraZeneca is viral vector (not an attenuated SARS-CoV-2, a completely different virus).
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      I wonder if the types affect the chance of a reaction for some people or in general

      Yeah, it does affect the type of severe reaction. AstraZenica had TTS, and with Moderna/Pfizer it’s pericarditis/myocarditis.

      Chances of it happening are very low for both vaccine types, but when you administer millions of doses, some minority are going to be affected.