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The largest side effect of COVID vaccine is to accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic in a short-term (This is not a joke, I am serious)

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People all over the world were excited to see the NEJM paper on Israel's mass vaccination result and I was one of them (though I think the BCG Tokyo 172 strain vaccine is safer and more effective). BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765    Estimated vaccine effectiveness for the study outcomes at days 14 through 20 after the first dose and at 7 or more days after the second dose was as follows: for documented infection, 46% (95% confidence interval [CI], 40 to 51) and 92% (95% CI, 88 to 95); for symptomatic Covid-19, 57% (95% CI, 50 to 63) and 94% (95% CI, 87 to 98); for hospitalization, 74% (95% CI, 56 to 86) and 87% (95% CI, 55 to 100); and for severe disease, 62% (95% CI, 39 to 80) and 92% (95% CI, 75 to 100), respectively. Estimated effectiveness in preventing death from Covid-19 was 72% (95% CI, 19 to 100) for days 14 through 20 after the first dose. In short, this paper claims the vaccination effi