How do we know the COVID vaccine won't have long-term side-effects?

By Samantha Carlson, Post Doctoral Research Officer, Telethon Kids Institute
Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia
Lucy Deng, Paediatrician, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance; Clinical Lecturer, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney
Margie Danchin, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney

Years of vaccine research tells us that, if side effects are going to occur, they normally occur within the first months after getting a vaccine.

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