(Sarah Bridge and Ioanna Roumeliotis/ CBC News) — Tanya Hayles is not an anti-vaxxer. The Torontonian has made sure her eight-year-old son Jackson is up to date with the standard vaccines, and she, too, has been inoculated.
“There are diseases that we were able to eradicate as a result of vaccines,” she said.
The event planner, whose business has suffered as a result of the pandemic, would like nothing more than to see the end of COVID-19 as well. Given the choice, though, she said she wouldn’t be “first in line” for a COVID-19 vaccination.
She points out that side effects of the immunizations she and her son have received in the past are well-known to doctors. “They can say, ‘Oh, look for a rash around the needle point,’ et cetera.”
However, Hayles has concerns about whether such clarity will be available with a coronavirus vaccine that has been developed so quickly.
“Something this big, something this major, something this rushed — I would want to know more information before I put it in my body,” she said. (…)