111–120 of 717 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not deadly enough _to you_. I'm sure those who are vulnerable will thank you immensely for your compassion.
Do you always get a flu shot?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some places are already completely back to normalcy, like many red states. Normalcy comes from accepting the virus and going back to life as normal; there's not a single place that's achieved normalcy by bringing covid rates down to zero.
It's not really normalcy if one still has to be concerned about catching covid and/or passing it on to vulnerable relatives though.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they can show that the product helps to save lifes and at some point get back to a normalcy, and especially if there’s no other significantly better product available, I really don’t have an issue with that.
At this point, does anyone believe we’ll get back to normalcy? What’s the path?
If you look at the broad scale of human history, though, there have been hundreds of epidemics, and we got past them.
I suspect there's an end to be had via broad-based immunity to the most transmissive mutations evolution's random walk can come up with before it hits a local maxima.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not deadly enough _to you_. I'm sure those who are vulnerable will thank you immensely for your compassion.
Does the Pfizer jab infection and prevent transmission to others? I thought I saw Fauci and Walensky (CDC) recently lamenting that it doesn't. Most of what I hear people say is it prevents disease severity.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccinated-people...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you're saying no company ever should undertake any promotion of the benefits of their products? The advertising industry wants a word with you!
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make - it's just advertising, and you're all acting like it's an announcement from a public health authority.
I think people are "acting like" it's scientific data about a vaccine of interest to the public.
Are you suggesting the data is unreliable or falsified? If so, and you have a basis for that, please cite.
Otherwise, it's difficult to understand why you're implying people shouldn't be interested in this information.
I have a few relatives in the medical field (all vaxxed and boosted) that have explained the booster shot is just more of the same stuff - they haven't had time to make a new recipe.. so isn't this just the same study all over again? i.e 2 shots had high protection in the beginning and waned over time. Can we expect the same from the booster shot?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does the Pfizer jab infection and prevent transmission to others? I thought I saw Fauci and Walensky (CDC) recently lamenting that it doesn't. Most of what I hear people say is it prevents disease severity.
It's a good question. If you Google it, the first page of results has articles reporting different reductions depending on the study, number of doses, and manufacturer. The range of results from a quick glance at a few of the articles is between 11% and 71% reduced transmission.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Table 1, in the linked XLS file for data through 24 September. You can see that it was originally closer to 0.1 (50x protection against death) but it's gone up to 1.1 over the last few months, I'm guessing as immunity has started to wear off.
Something else to consider is that while a person may die while having COVID-19, it does not mean that is all that they died from. People in general may have several health problems, which is especially likely for an 80+ year old person. Some healthcare activities have also been postponed since the outbreak, by the patients and also the hospitals, which may have led to less healthy people.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look all the way over at "Second dose", the age-standardized mortality rate is 1.1 per 100,000 vs 5.4 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. 5x protection against death.
To put these numbers in perspective, global death rate from car accidents is 18.2/100k/yr. 12.4 in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...