Canadian scientists helped run the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine safety study. Here’s what they found
After three arduous years spent combing through the health data of more than 99 million vaccinated people around the globe, Dr. Jeff Kwong was finally done.
He and a multinational team of 34 researchers had just completed the largest-ever study into COVID-19 vaccine safety — and yielded results the authors say confirm the safety of the vaccine.
“The bottom line message is that COVID vaccines are very safe,” said Kwong, the associate director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at Toronto’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
“We’re doing these studies just to quantify — just how much is the risk? Because at the level of the population, when you are vaccinating millions, you will expect to see some of these adverse events,” he explained. “But you’ve also prevented a lot of adverse events in those who didn’t get the infection, because they got vaccinated. It’s always a tradeoff.”
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