Did you get your vaccine report card results yet?

 https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/health/covid-19-vaccination-kit-record-card/index.html

The Department of Defense released the first images of a Covid-19 vaccination record card and vaccination kits Wednesday.  Vaccination cards will be used as the "simplest" way to keep track of Covid-19 shots, said Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action Coalition, which is supporting frontline workers who will administer Covid-19 vaccinations.  Initial supplies in the United States will be limited, and the wider population won't have access to vaccines until months into 2021. A CDC panel recommended Tuesday that heath care and long-term care workers get inoculated first. By February, 100 million Americans could be vaccinated against coronavirus, Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, said Wednesday.

Question: What if you are skeptical as to the efficacy - are you allowed to opt-out or wait until it has been fully tested?

Answer:  You can opt-out of having the immunization record stored in an IIS (Immunization Information System).  See https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/resources-refs/faq.html . 

But that doesn't answer the question, and I can't find a quick answer to it.  Apparently, you would be able to wait a while.  

A survey by Pew Research found that 60% of people are planning on taking it as soon as it is available.   Of the 40% who don't plan on taking it right away, about half say it is possible they would take it once more information is available and one more information is available.  And the other half (20%) say that they do not plan on getting vaccinated and more information would not change their mind.  

So obviously you can't required to take it.  But there are repercussions - you might be fired from your job, and you might not be able to travel.

I'm concerned that the vaccine doesn't work.  Everything I have seen talks about preventing symptoms, not preventing infections.  So I am in the middle 20%.

Early data on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines suggest both are safe and highly effective, with each preventing 95% of symptomatic infections in the people who have volunteered to test them according to the companies.  

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/health/cdc-acip-covid-19-vaccine-recommendation-vote/index.html

Who cares about preventing symptoms (mild fever, cough, etc).  What I want to know is will it prevent the spread of infection?  If you can't point to a study that shows that it prevents infection, then I don't see the point in being "vaccinated", especially since the vaccines have side effects.

We all expect an effective vaccine to prevent serious illness if infected. Three of the vaccine protocols—Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca—do not require that their vaccine prevent serious disease only that they prevent moderate symptoms which may be as mild as cough, or headache.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?

The Johnson & Johnson test apparently does expect the vaccine to prevent illness.  (Read their protocol, which I have not read).

So which vaccine is going to be released soon?  The Pfizer and Moderna ones.

I don't really see the harm in getting "vaccinated", except for possible side effects.  And if someone insists that I do it, I probably will.  But I think these are as fake as flu shots (which don't prevent infection, but do have an effect on hospitalization).

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Last month, Pfizer announced that its vaccine – developed along side BioNTech – proved over 90% effective in giving immunity. Although this statistic on its face sounds remarkable, researchers have warned that the clinical trials did not assess whether the vaccine can prevent the virus from spreading.

“We have no knowledge about whether it prevents you from actually acquiring the infection at all,” Dr. Larry Corey, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, told Business Insider.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/pfizer-ceo-not-certain-vaccine-will-stop-people-spreading-covid-19

If the vaccine is not going to give you immunity or prevent you from spreading coronavirus, why would you take it?