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A new review published in The Lancet confirms their safety, finding that [a]cross billions of administered doses, serious adverse events have been rare, well characterised, and consistently outweighed by the substantial protection conferred against severe disease, hospitalisation, and death. As one example, incidents of myocarditis and pericarditis (inflammatory conditions related to the heart) were about 12.6 cases per million for Pfizers Covid vaccine and 35.6 cases per million for Modernas

As of 2026, approximately half of the world's countries have legalized some form of medical weed

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