99%+ of people dying from COVID right now are unvaccinated. There is absolutely zero doubt that the vaccines are incredibly effective at preventing the most serious COVID cases and deaths. Anyone, especially a doctor, telling people that the vaccines have not proven to be extremely effective is putting lives at risk by encouraging people not to do the one thing everyone (aside from children under 12 and those with medical conditions who can't take vaccines) in our country can do right now to end this crisis.
The overwhelming majority of the debate, (probably 95%+), is NOT about whether the new vaccines are effective. I've not seen any/many on here who feel that they don't work. It's more about whether they are safe, and whether we have enough usage data across the full life-cycle. Every reported datum and stat says that the new vaccines are SUPER safe in the short-term, but unfortunately, that's the only timeframe for which we have any data in order to do real science, (since we do not have any data for the mid-term or long-term). Some feel this lack of data isn't important because they have faith. Others want more tangible proof, so they "are still waiting".
Many are ignorant of the fact that we don't have data for the full life-cycle, or they have decided to take a leap of faith because they feel the benefit outweighs the risk etc.. But there are some who aren't willing or ready to take that leap of faith, because they feel their risk/reward ratio doesn't dictate it yet. Hopefully, you can offer a cogent argument to convince them to see things the way you do.
1) Do you feel you can guarantee everyone 100% that we won't have any blind spots, hiccups or learning curves with this novel technology?
2) Can you guarantee that if we get 85%, 90% or even 100% vaccinated, that we will definitely reach herd immunity?
If you can't look into the future, and guarantee those things, then hopefully you will have some empathy as you reason with those who feel differently than you do. We've got to find a way to stop the one-sided spinning and silly partisan piss-fighting and name-calling, and work together to come up with the best solutions so that we can end this thing.