> COVID vaccine prevented transmission of the virus

People aren't good at subtlety and nuance, and it's quite necessary:

- Did the COVID vaccine prevent transmission of the virus? No, clearly not, because I was double vaccinated and still caught the virus and inadvertently spread the virus.

- Did the COVID vaccine reduce the probability of transmission of the virus? Probably.

- Did the COVID vaccine reduce the severity of symptoms if you were infected? Also probably.

- Was there a non-zero risk of injury due to the COVID vaccine? Definitely. In the general population, did the risk of severe illness due to COVID outweigh the risk of vaccine injury? Very likely. For specific individuals who ended up debilitated for 12 months (like my close family member), undergoing a number of tests to try to find a cause other than vaccine injury, was it worth it? Hard to say.

Edit: someone replied about vaccine injury and was flagged. In this particular case the doctor was convinced that it was Addison’s Disease and the onset was within days of, I believe her third dose. It’s an autoimmune disorder that affects the adrenal glands and results in insufficient cortisol. Except… there was nothing wrong with her adrenal glands and it went away a year later.

I was not talking about "subtle and nuanced" claims though, just the one I mentioned.

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