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The vaccines aren't a 100% guarantee against sickness and death from Covid. They just improve your odds, and are a tool in the toolkit. Hopefully, now that the vaccines are here, they will also pour money into development of therapeutics to be given as soon as people become sick (not when they are half dead in the hospital and it is too late).
The takeaway is that this virus is here to stay and there is nothing that will ever give us 100% certainty regarding Covid. It's also unrealistic to think we can have a strategy of total eradication of this virus by vaccine.
We will have to learn to live with it. Since we have become so highly attuned to risks of dying, I wonder when people will start losing weight and exercising? 78% of people who were hospitalized for Covid were obese or overweight. That would really improve one's odds of surviving not just Covid, but the other causes of death.
'She said her symptoms included fever and a migraine headache. She also lost the abilities to taste and smell. Hernandez said she was quarantining at her Phoenix home, where she would remain for the next week.'
Is that scientific enough for you?
Simply testing positive from a nasal swab is not proof of infection. The seasonal flu is still with us, so are sinus infections, ear infections, the common cold, a stuffy nose and nasal congestion, etc... I suppose in your world, the only thing that can make you feel sick with a headache and a stuffy nose is.... COVID.
Overweight, obese, diabetes, high blood pressure seem to be the most prevalent high risk factors all around.
These 4 keep popping up in various studies and articles.
These four risk factors are routinely mentioned as factors that make people more vulnerable to a long list of diseases and disorders. This is not a situation unique to this virus.
These vaccines probably only provide 2-3 month protection. They are "feel good" vaccines for the public for more control. All you can really do is hope to keep hospitalizations/deaths down
Lower deaths and hospitalizations is reason enough for me.
Gotta rep you for that!
Been in medicine almost 50 years, and never taught that obesity affected vaccine efficacy in general!
Here's this study about the flu vaccine and obesity dated 2014.
Plenty of others out there with other vaccines.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896564/
The relationship between obesity and vaccine efficacy is a serious issue. Previous studies have shown that vaccine efficacy is lower in the obese than in the non-obese.
These four risk factors are routinely mentioned as factors that make people more vulnerable to a long list of diseases and disorders. This is not a situation unique to this virus.
And we have a lot of people that fall into one or more of those categories...in fact the majority of Americans do.
We are not a healthy society.
Simply testing positive from a nasal swab is not proof of infection. The seasonal flu is still with us, so are sinus infections, ear infections, the common cold, a stuffy nose and nasal congestion, etc... I suppose in your world, the only thing that can make you feel sick with a headache and a stuffy nose is.... COVID.
Simply testing positive from a nasal swab is not proof of infection. The seasonal flu is still with us, so are sinus infections, ear infections, the common cold, a stuffy nose and nasal congestion, etc... I suppose in your world, the only thing that can make you feel sick with a headache and a stuffy nose is.... COVID.
A positive swab and sudden loss of taste and smell is good enough for a Covid diagnosis in my book!
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