People are right to be sceptical of pharmaceutical companies, but you'd be surprised which of them have been rocked by massive scandals and yet still make money hand over fist. Spoiler: all of them, including Pfizer, who did some truly shocking things during an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria.Pfizer will be ultra sensitive on this - imagine the impact to their company if a significant safety concern arose. It would ruin their reputation and destroy their brand.
The most obvious one that comes to mind: you know that terrible, life-ruining drug heroin?
Ever wonder how it got its name? What if I told you that Heroin is a brand name of Bayer AG?
It was marketed as cough and pain relief "without the addictive nature of morphine"
As for the vaccine, I'll take it when it comes to me, assuming it hasn't been recalled by then. I don't envy those first in the queue, though.
Edit to add: it'll almost certainly be fine, but as a species, humans have a knack for being spectacularly poor at either predicting or mitigating unintended consequences.
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