Dr. Mark Cameron, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, was interviewed for a recent article in EveryDay Health about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Below is an excerpt from that aricle:
“The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses is climbing towards three-quarters of a million doses in the United States, with billions more administered around the world,” says Mark Cameron, PhD, associate professor in the department of population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western Reserve University. “The safety of mRNA vaccines is well-established across multiple safety monitoring systems in the United States. That said, the CDC, FDA, and many other organizations around the world continue to conduct what’s easily considered the most intensive safety monitoring study in U.S. history.”
For the latest information on vaccine safety, he recommends reading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, as well as their COVID-19 vaccine safety landing page and information about COVID-19 vaccine safety reporting systems.
“I hope people come away with the same take-home message I have,” Dr. Cameron says, “that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh the rare chances of serious adverse events, especially where the same severe reactions are much more prevalent following infection with COVID-19 itself, including cardiac complications and blood clots.”