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Count_Drachma posted...

I don't know the exact odds for a severe health impact,

The most "common" severe reaction with the mRNA vaccines is myocarditis, which happens roughly once or twice per 100,000 doses and is quite easily treatable. You're at greater risk of being killed in a car crash on your way to the clinic than by the vaccine.

It's also not surprising that Janssen's mostly off the table. The side effects tend to be more severe and it offers the worst protection of any of the main options (most notably, being virtually useless against Omicron). It's pretty telling that the only circumstances in which the FDA is approving it are cases where the individual won't otherwise get vaccinated: It's better than nothing, but worse than everything else. It'd be fantastic if it worked better, given how much more convenient it is, but unfortunately that's just not how reality worked out.