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Page title

COVID-19 (full caps) is preferable in the body of all articles, and in the title of all articles/category pages/etc.(RM April 2020, including the main article itself, RM March 2021).

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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 vaccine (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	16,320	16,320
Background	13,309	13,309
Vaccine technologies	6,999	41,603
mRNA vaccines	7,869	7,869
Adenovirus vector vaccines	7,163	7,163
Inactivated virus vaccines	5,629	5,629
Subunit vaccines	7,188	7,188
Virus-like particle vaccines	640	640
Other types	6,115	6,115
List of authorized vaccines	4,948	4,948
Delivery methods	166	6,406
Intranasal	4,420	4,420
Autologous	1,820	1,820
Universal vaccine	6,485	6,485
Formulation	2,378	2,378
Planning and development	1,593	21,666
Challenges	10,513	10,513
Organizations	9,560	9,560
Clinical research	139	337
Post-vaccination complications	198	198
History	866	866
Effectiveness	1,856	12,773
Duration of immunity	4,707	8,884
Immune evasion by variants	4,042	4,177
Vaccine adjustments	135	135
Effectiveness against transmission	961	961
Mix and match	1,072	1,072
Adverse events	18,784	18,784
Society and culture	26	54,181
Distribution	1,647	1,647
Access	36,021	39,745
Economics	3,724	3,724
Liability	9,602	9,602
Controversy	1,387	1,387
Misinformation and hesitancy	1,774	1,774
See also	249	249
Notes	36	36
References	30	30
Further reading	1,976	4,218
Vaccine protocols	2,242	2,242
External links	2,293	2,293
Total	206,882	206,882

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Discussions:

No consensus, 11 March 2020, from COVID-19 vaccine to Coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine research, see discussion.
No consensus, 13 April 2020, from COVID-19 vaccine to COVID-19 vaccine development, see discussion.

Discussion of a questionable (now retracted) study suggesting "dangers of mRNA vaccines"

Sadly discovered this posted by a relative who doesn't like the vaccine, but it is concerning.[1] Doug Weller talk 10:03, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Junk, non-peer-reviewed journal and a rogues' gallery of contributors. Some sane commentary on it here.[2] Bon courage (talk) 10:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My browser showed me this[3]. Doug Weller talk 11:42, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Published by Cureus, a definite red flag. @Bon courage seeing this [4] RSN? Doug Weller talk 13:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MDPI journals already listed at WP:RSP. Myself, I would probably never use this journal for health claims. Bon courage (talk) 13:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How is that MDPI? Anyway, going to RSN now. Doug Weller talk 14:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

O yes, it's not MDPI. It's Springer Nature (?!). Bon courage (talk) 14:15, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

same people, same argument, different publisher.[5] Doug Weller talk 14:57, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to cap this off: Cureus (unusually) retracted the article.[6] Bon courage (talk) 13:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I am surprised that a reasonably seasoned editor would have fallen for this bogus report in the first place. BD2412 T 16:43, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the end of the section "Adverse Events", after the part with tinnitus, the following references could be added, showing no signs of an increased rate of lasting vestibular damage:

https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15546 https://doi.org/10.1097/mao.0000000000003275

It could read like this: "Compared to pre-pandemic cohorts, no increased rate of lasting peripheral-vestibular damage has been shown in observational studies [ref 1, 2]." J.Q.G. (talk) 07:42, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Would need secondary sourcing per WP:MEDRS. Bon courage (talk) 07:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New study linking covid vaccines to excess deaths in the West

As reported by multiple sources, The Telegraph, GBNews, Global News, citing The BMJ. I don't usually deal with medical topics, so I'm not sure which section this should be added to. Yvan Part (talk) 00:17, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They are burying the lead a bit, but the sources, particularly the Global News and the actually BMJ study, are pointing more to COVID-19 causing large numbers of excess deaths rather than the vaccine causing large numbers of excess deaths. As The Telegraph article says that "across Europe, the US and Australia there had been more than one million excess deaths in 2020" (basically in the first nine months after the pandemic began, and before the vaccine was available at all), and 1.2 million in 2021 (the first full year of the pandemic itself), and 800,000 in 2022 (after a third of the population had been vaccinated). BD2412 T 00:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'll hold for now. I admit that I read throught the articles in a hurry. The titles are indeed a bit sensationalistic though it might be worth keeping an eye on the matter in the coming months in case more studies are conducted. Probably not to relate excess deaths to the vaccine but the relation between excess deaths and covid-19. Yvan Part (talk) 16:21, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@nandinimorku 2409:4070:4813:E6AA:3091:3AFF:FE6C:31B5 (talk) 10:19, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]