That, and besides them being entirely unconnected events, only one is largely in your control. On the one hand you have a virus going around, which - ignoring for a moment that it was probably created in a lab - is a natural occurrence and with us on Earth no matter what we do. Getting infected is an "Act of God". You can do some things to minimize the risk, but ultimately we accept that risk as part of being alive. It cannot be calculated for every individual in the population, only guesstimated on average.

On the other hand you have the positive action of injecting a drug into your body. The specific risk can be calculated for you. If you don't take it you have zero risk of side effects. If you do, the risk depends on known effects of the drug and your physiology, which become better understood over time with research.

Scientists and politicians constantly employ this kind of statistics pilpul to convince people to do what they want.