When Clayton Dalton asks his unvaccinated patients why they’ve chosen not to get the shot, sometimes their answers are conspiratorial, but most often they are concerned about something real: adverse effects. nyer.cm/EhFlpeH
What vaccine-hesitant people are missing, Dalton writes, is a sense of how risk fits into medicine. Health-care professionals are urging vaccination because they see its ratio of risks to benefits as incredibly, unbelievably good. nyer.cm/EhFlpeH 
In the U.S., out of 13 million doses administered, 42 cases of blood clots have been associated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s a rate of 0.0003 per cent. COVID, on the other hand, raised the risk of blood clots by 800 per cent. nyer.cm/EhFlpeH
Read Clayton Dalton’s report on the research behind adverse effects, the history of mRNA technology, and why the F.D.A. hasn’t yet fully approved all of the vaccines (spoiler: full approval requires a huge amount of paperwork). nyer.cm/EhFlpeH
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