I too have had Phizer shot #2, in my case 3 weeks ago - and without anything more than an unremarkable soreness at the injection site. So I consider that my paleoflatus status no longer makes me particularly at risk for COVID. And 95% effectiveness - compared to not getting vaccinated, which didn’t kill me before I got the shots in February - means near-certain freedom from COVID. Moderna’s raw stat - which I happen to have seen here - is that out of 15,000 vaccinated people, 11 got COVID. None of whom were hospitalized, let alone died.And I wanna believe that that is everyone’s experience. But I have a friend even older than I, who has been walloped pretty bad by the Moderna shot. Besides, the country - and the world - is full of youngsters who do things which need doing, and haven’t yet got even their first shot. And there are people with allergies which rule out their taking the vaccines at all.☹️
So the conclusion is that treatments to assure that those who get COVID don’t suffer serious outcomes is certainly worth a lot - and will be until/unless vaccination becomes universal globally. And if such treatments are effective against mutations of COVID . . .
Besides, they claim that injection site soreness suggests that the vaccine is working - might it not be possible that a COViD treatment should be administered simultaneously with vaccination, to ameliorate the side effects of the vaccine???
conservatism_IS_compassion wrote: “I too have had Phizer shot #2, in my case 3 weeks ago - and without anything more than an unremarkable soreness at the injection site. So I consider that my paleoflatus status no longer makes me particularly at risk for COVID. And 95% effectiveness - compared to not getting vaccinated, which didn’t kill me before I got the shots in February - means near-certain freedom from COVID.”
Well stated. Those of us who have chosen to get the vaccine have, as you say, near certain freedom from COVID. Those that get their medical advice from Youtube videos can only hope they are protected.