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From my understanding, the 3+ years was shortened to 1 year by everyone prioritizing to get admin hurdles removed / adding more funding and resources.
Fair enough months is not 10 years.
There are far far more people getting vaccinations in those months than you'd get with clinical trials over 10 years though?
There might be some strange very long term side effects that pop up in 10 years perhaps, that's fair.
AZ is a pretty standard viral vector, with mRNA yeah maybe it's possible?
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I think the argument that is commonly used against this is that in normal times, a new vaccine would still be 3+ years away from being approved for small scale clinical trials. Being in the arms of hundreds of millions of people for a few months is not the same as the thick end of a decade of cautious and progressively larger clinical trials.
The fact remains though that any unidentified side effects of the vaccines are very unlikely to be worse than not taking the vaccine...which is why I assume most people are happy to have them. Including me. Its still a (very low risk) gamble though.