Following a court order in the United States, Pfizer has released a detailed list of side effects associated with its COVID-19 vaccines. This disclosure comes after years of controversy and doubts about the safety of these products, whose development accelerated during the pandemic. The leaked document is nearly 300 pages long and lists both serious and moderate side effects associated with the vaccine.
Late detection of threats
Like all COVID-19 vaccines, those developed for COVID-19 have side effects. However, their rapid development during this health crisis has raised legitimate concerns about their safety. For a long time, health authorities in many countries, including France, downplayed the occurrence of these side effects, likely to avoid slowing down mass vaccination campaigns under intense public pressure.
The currently available list illustrates the extent of this phenomenon. Another factor complicates the situation: not all batches of vaccines are of the same quality, which means that, depending on the batch, not all vaccinated individuals have been exposed to the same risk.
