recent study found that potential side effects from COVID-19 vaccines that many people use as an excuse not to get vaccinated pale in comparison to the severity of the same symptoms an unvaccinated person who becomes infected with the coronavirus may experience.
The study, which was published in "The New England Journal of Medicine" on Aug. 25, used data from the largest health care organization in Israel to evaluate the safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. "For each potential adverse event, in a population of persons with no previous diagnosis of that event, we individually matched vaccinated persons to unvaccinated persons according to sociodemographic and clinical variables," according to the study.