THE STAY WELL BLOG

Do you think COVID vaccines are safe? Probably, yes, because you’re reading this article. And you happen to be right. We now have concrete research from France, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , that proves not only that COVID vaccines are safe but that they reduce your risk from dying from all other things, too. Of course, there are folks who do not believe this. I know you’re shocked by that (not), but they might want to chime in on this, too. S

Vaccines save lives. Smallpox was eliminated from the world because of vaccines. It killed roughly 200 million to 500 million people worldwide in the 1800s and continued until immunization against it became widespread. When English physician Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox immunization in the late 1780s, it took decades before people believed in it. Don’t get me wrong, the first vaccination had lots of problems, but so did smallpox. Now, let’s go on to childhood i