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Wow. Worth noting that Simone [1] had some serious health challenges of her own not too long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5XRQ07sjU Something about being a female STEM YouTuber... :-( --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Giertz
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Tl;Dw - Physics Girl, a popular science education YouTuber, is on an indefinite hiatus due to complications from long COVID resulting in chronic fatigue. The video has a lot more detail about the severity of her condition and her husband's efforts to care for her. Her friends are asking people to consider subscribing to her Patreon.
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Let’s please not result to attacking the tone of the article. The data is probably not wrong. It’s probably taken out of context though. But you can get the same issues from contracting COVID. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm Which looks like an order of magnitude greater from getting the real thing. I find people are really not good at considering other scenarios and ball parking risk. Or maybe th…
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/ 200,000 unvaccinated people showed no measurable increase in myo- and pericarditis post covid infection.
Which is fun, since 200,000 is a LOT of people and would normally (assuming independence and randomness) be seen as more than enough, but there's probably not a lot of true randomness/independence in cohorts of people who got Covid in that period. Probably a lot of shared characteristics.
In any case, the sample that's 7 times longer is probably the one to go with.
So the express article talks about risk increases of 75% and 557% (Pfizer/Moderna). The COVID cohort in the March 2020-January 2021 US study is a 16x increase. So quite likely several multiples worse to get "original" Covid unvaccinated, also a lot of unknowns around new variants and immune response, of course, but...
It's all pretty straightforward, no? Vaccine causes similar effects to a real infection intentionally, to stimulate the immune system. Sometimes this has side effect. The actual virus - which is much more, ahem, viral - hits the body even harder, the immune system produces much larger effects, including more frequent instances of the same side effects.
And these numbers all around are still infrequent, and viral infection has caused myocarditits for a long time pre-Covid too, so the hysteria seems like confirmation bias (either of "Covid is the source of all my problems" or "vaccines are bad" reactionary silliness.)
How frequently you do or don't get boosters should depend on disease prevalence, patient history, risk factors, etc, but.... the idea that people are commonly dropping dead from these vaccines or this disease super frequently, and worringly more than the whole world full of previous diseases? I'm unconvinced. And that it's "mRNA specific" vs "immune system stimulation" related? Seems to be zero reason to jump to that conclusion.
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I haven't watched the video, but just wanted to say my family has insurance (in USA), with $7,000 deductible & $14,000 out of pocket family maximum. That of course assumes that we won't get balance billed for whatever bureaucratic reason the medical provider comes up with. For example: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/28/1159786...
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-surprise-...
Tl;Dw - Physics Girl, a popular science education YouTuber, is on an indefinite hiatus due to complications from long COVID resulting in chronic fatigue. The video has a lot more detail about the severity of her condition and her husband's efforts to care for her. Her friends are asking people to consider subscribing to her Patreon.
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The history of controversy surrounding it is worth a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_related_to_chr...
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Wow. Worth noting that Simone [1] had some serious health challenges of her own not too long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5XRQ07sjU Something about being a female STEM YouTuber... :-( --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Giertz
> Giertz is a descendant of Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of Ericsson.