Had I been polled last fall, I would have registered as a Covid vaccine skeptic. I told anyone who asked that I was going to wait at least six months after a vaccine was approved, by which time I hoped we’d know more about the degree and possibly the duration of its effectiveness and its potential side effects, especially in the elderly.
I was hardly alone in my concern that political influence might result in premature approval of a vaccine before its safety was well established.
Well, that hesitancy quickly dissipated after listening to reports from the directors of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several vaccine experts I know and trust, all of whom gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up to both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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