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  You're not alone if you're feeling nervous about these brand new vaccines, despite the safety data that's available. There's nothing wrong with being anxious about something new. People seem to be far more worried about who is promoting the vaccines and why than they are about any possible side effects or fear of needles. You have to know that things have come a long way since Edward Jenner first vaccinated a young boy against smallpox in 1796. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that vaccination currently prevents 2 million to 3 million deaths every year. No matter where you heard that claim about the COVID-19 vaccines, it might be making you wary of getting vaccinated when it’s your turn. 1- Just as with other vaccines, the COVID-19 vaccines can cause temporary effects soon after they enter the body and start teaching the immune system to go after the coronavirus. The most common reactions are headaches, arm pain, body aches, chills or fever lastin

  It is known that the goal of vaccine developers is to mimic a natural infection as closely as possible without getting a healthy individual sick. The COVID-19  vaccines essentially aim to instruct the immune system to mount a defense, which is sometimes stronger than what would be provided through natural infection and comes with fewer health consequences. Here are the available vaccines: Pfizer 1- One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, based in New York, in collaboration with German biotech company BioNTech. 2- A nucleic-acid vaccine that requires two doses taken 21 days apart. 3- On December 2, the U.K. became the first Western country to approve any COVID-19 vaccine when it authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech candidate making the drug the first mRNA vaccine in history allowed for human use. The vaccine has also been granted emergency approval in Canada, the European Union, and other countries. 4- On December 10, the New England Journal of Medicine publis

  Who is Dr Geert Vanden Bossche? - Geert Vanden Bossche obtained his DVM at the Veterinary Faculty of Ghent and his PhD in Virology at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart. Following his Postdoctoral training in Virology, Immunology and Molecular Biology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hohenheim (Germany), He then transitioned to the Vaccine Industry to serve various senior roles in both early and late vaccine development (GSK, Novartis, Solvay).  - In 2008, he joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle to serve as Senior Program Officer in Vaccine Discovery for Global Health.  - He is now the Head of Vaccine Development Office at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) in Germany. The ongoing denial by WHO, public health agencies and governments of science-based evidence on how to mitigate the already disastrous global and individual consequences of this pandemic are beyond mind-blowing.  I t becomes already obvious that several scienti