Whatever the risks of the vaccine, I'll be cash money they're orders of magnitude lower than the risks of the virus itself, which include death and lingering disease.
I wish we could get a true handle on what the risks actually are. For example, we keep hearing about the case fatality rate. That’s not actually the relevant number. The relevant number is the crude mortality rate, the
actual risk of you dying from covid, not the risk of you dying
if you get it.This varies of course with age, socioeconomic status and health.
On the other side is the risk of the vaccine which is hard to sort out. Going through the raw data it’s easy to see some cases where deaths were purely coincidental. Others where it’s pretty certain the vaccine was the direct cause of death (anaphylaxis). But many in between where it is unclear, and reported deaths do not include autopsy results, it’s actually going to be a long time before we know the true vaccine associated event rate, if ever. And then there are long term complications of the vaccine we have no idea about right now. Same is true of the virus.
It’s an individual choice based on all kinds of factors. If you are very young, the true risk of death or long term consequences from covid is virtually zero. Maybe you should forgo the vaccine. If you are older, or have health conditions, it’s pretty clear the risk from the disease is much greater than the risk from the vaccine, based on available information at present. It might be prudent to get the vaccine.