What my doctor said:

it is like a lot of other papers that exist that have reasonable and plausible speculations about possible adverse long-term effects of this type of vaccine. The answer is that we just do not know as it is too early in this very complex and evolving situation to ascertain these things…no one fully knows and so we must speculate as accurately and scientifically as possible...and it is in this atmosphere of a serious pandemic with rushed vaccines and the fact that we are early on in this developing/unfolding situation as to how well the vaccines may work, it is within this atmosphere that vaccine hesitancy that seems reasonable, i.e., the cautionary principle seems appropriate. What becomes difficult is how to balance our response to a vaccine within a health care system that seemingly pays little to no attention to remediating the co-morbidities that are driving the severity of this pandemic and instead relies on medicines/vaccines totally when in all reality we need both approaches. Since the reduction or remediation of co-morbidities is NOT taking place (and we have had plenty of time to make a serious dent in these epidemic health issues), then a vaccine becomes more urgent and advisable, even with all of the unknowns. What I am trying to say is that I can understand and relate to the need for the vaccine, and I can understand and relate to the hesitancy. In the long run, it is up to each one of us to get as informed as possible and make our decision. So, for you and virtually everyone else too, evaluating and considering with your unique health status and concerns, is getting Covid-19 more risky than the vaccine? If you can answer that question then you have your answer.