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A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta

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Re: A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta

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case numbers of course matter, because vaccines do not guarantee you will not end up with long covid, or many other consequences of a rough viral infection. Countless millions will live with a permanent disability their entire life.

> Countless millions will live with a permanent disability their entire life. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I see no reason to believe this at all. Side effects from a viral infection, and specifically coronaviruses, lasting for months or even a year or two afterward in uncommon cases are well documented. To say that "countless millions will live with a permanent disability" with regard to a vi…

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Re: A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta

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What is not being said is some people are on the brink of death anyways and being vaccinated will not stop that trajectory(dying). The older you are the weaker your immune system is. A 97 year not vaccinated would most likely die after getting covid, either from the virus itself or an infection that happens after the body is weakened by the virus. The same fully vaccinated person may or may not die, if they do die it…

Those people that are on the brink of death don't get the vaccine and probably skew the metric in the other way.

If you know the cancer patient has 2 weeks left you're not going to vaccinate him. If that same cancer patient dies with covid it'll be counted as an unvaxxed covid death

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