Can I trust the Phizer/Moderna vaccine?

Erick, 

 received my 1st. shot of the Pfizer vaccine on Jan. 21st and will be getting the 2nd. soon. I didn't feel any discomfort at all. I don't know how effective the shots will be although I've known several people who have had COVID including one who died. I believe the shot, if it works, is 100% better than getting COVID.

Having already exceeded my "Best if used by" date, I'm more concerned about avoiding the suffering/dying from COVID in the next several months , than what effect the vaccine might have on me some years from now. 

I’m just bookmarking this so I can come back and answer it

nope , they sometimes dont work ...why are you scared of dying are you ..!!!

Maybe.  Get back to us in a decade after we've had a chance to see what injecting mRNA will do.

Regarding the comment below...

" I would not advise anyone to take it unless if they are infected with covid."

That would be pointless as a vaccine is not immediately effective, it takes a few weeks to trigger the body into making sufficient antibodies and in that time it has little effect against the virus.

You need it in advance.

Regarding whether you can trust the vaccines, how many millions have so far received the vaccines ?    And how many adverse reactions have there been ?

Statistically it makes no sense not to take the vaccine. 

The doctor in Florida was admitted to hospital three days after receiving his immunisation shot with a condition known as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). This results from the immune system attacking the body's thrombocytes, lowering the platelet count. In effect, the blood doesn't clot and unfortunately the doctor died from, according to reports at the time, hemorrhagic stroke.

Obviously, the association people are going to make will go something like this - the vaccine causes an immune response, this doctor presented with a condition caused by the immune system, therefore this is suspicious. And, of course, that is being investigated by health officials and Pfizer at the moment.

However, we don't know what causes ITP. What we do know is that 3 in every 100000 Americans develop the condition each year. At the moment about 20 million Americans have received at least one Covid vaccine shot.

Based on that ITP incidence rate, we would expect 600 people within that 20 million to be diagnosed with ITP this year. Or another way of putting it is, after vaccination, we would expect an average of 1.6 people per day from that 20 million to be diagnosed with ITP even if the vaccine was not the cause.

So it is highly likely that this situation is an unfortunate coincidence. Even if the vaccine is implicated after the case is studied, that risk is still acceptably low - we happily get in our cars to drive despite the odds of dying in a car crash over our lifetime being about 1 in 600. Worrying about vaccine safety when we do far more risky things seems a bit daft to me as a nurse!

I got my 1st shot and I am fine.

just suck it up and get it already

One death out of millions? Even if it WERE related to the vaccine, those are damned good odds.