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The vaccinated are worried, and scientists don’t have answers
Pittsburgh Gazette ^ | Aug 2021 | Kristen V. Brown & Rebecca Torrence

Posted on 08/21/2021 10:35:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Anecdotes tell us what the data can’t: Vaccinated people appear to be getting the coronavirus at a surprisingly high rate. But exactly how often isn’t clear, nor is it certain how likely they are to spread the virus to others. And now, there’s growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness than previously thought.

There’s a dearth of scientific studies with concrete answers, leaving public policy makers and corporate executives to formulate plans based on fragmented information. While some are renewing mask mandates or delaying office reopenings, others cite the lack of clarity to justify staying the course. It can all feel like a mess.

“We have to be humble about what we do know and what we don’t know,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the head of the nonprofit Resolve to Save Lives. “There are a few things we can say definitively. One is that this is a hard question to address.”

“It’s quite clear that we have more breakthroughs now,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco. “We all know someone who has had one. But we don’t have great clinical data.”

All that said, some facts are well established at this point. Vaccinated people infected with the virus are much less likely to need to go to the hospital, much less likely to need intubation and much less likely to die from the illness. There’s no doubt that vaccines provide significant protection.

“The big picture here is that the vaccines are working and the reason for the spike in the U.S. is we have too little vaccine uptake,” Dr. Frieden said.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; notarealvaccine; rare; teumpvaccines; trumpvaccines; vaccine
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1 posted on 08/21/2021 10:35:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
All that said,....

I will now blow smoke up your @$$.

2 posted on 08/21/2021 10:41:04 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

so now they want to bring up the fact they don’t know everything, when its becoming a real sh1tshow

just blindly trust them though


3 posted on 08/21/2021 10:43:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Texas Eagle
All that said,   I will now spew the obligatory BIG PHARMA propaganda.
4 posted on 08/21/2021 10:45:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Exactly!


5 posted on 08/21/2021 10:45:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SoConPubbie; Texas Eagle

LOL


6 posted on 08/21/2021 10:46:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Exactly.


7 posted on 08/21/2021 10:47:52 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
The money quote from this piece:

And now, there’s growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness than previously thought.

8 posted on 08/21/2021 10:50:52 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
 
 
 
 

9 posted on 08/21/2021 10:52:43 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Artcore

>> And now, there’s growing concern

No medication is advertised without a litany of warnings — except the vax — an experimental vax — a vax that’s being forced on the entire country.

FU, vaxholes.


10 posted on 08/21/2021 10:53:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The unvaccinated who get the “disease” are also less likely to go to the hospital . Most are asymptotic


11 posted on 08/21/2021 11:06:18 PM PDT by ac-rep
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To: Gene Eric

No medication is advertised without a litany of warnings — except the vax — an experimental vax — a vax that’s being forced on the entire country.

FU, vaxholes.

....

Exactly!

And now we have the FDA set to approve this crap, that usually takes 5 years or more to thoroughly test, so it can be mandated (forced) on Americans in order to travel, dine, and even keep our jobs!

I cannot believe the number of people who frequent FR who think this is totally cool! WTF!


12 posted on 08/21/2021 11:15:57 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: Texas Eagle

Meet Joe Black


13 posted on 08/21/2021 11:25:35 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Artcore

I read that the mRNA “vaccine” alters the immune system to recognize only the spikes on the CCP virus and thus it depresses your immune system generally.


14 posted on 08/21/2021 11:25:56 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe b)
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To: Artcore

Thy will change heir minds in time but they cannot then change their situations.


15 posted on 08/21/2021 11:27:21 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe M)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ruh roh!


16 posted on 08/21/2021 11:27:48 PM PDT by gawatchman
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To: Artcore

The Bible says good will be evil, evil will be good. People will believe the lies. I had always thought this was a Christian conservative forum. I was wrong.


17 posted on 08/22/2021 12:06:25 AM PDT by roving
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
People who are concerned about the vaccine before taking it are kooks.

People who are concerned about the vaccine after taking it are potential members of a class action lawsuit.

18 posted on 08/22/2021 12:14:28 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Widget Jr

Not when its experimental. That’s called sucker.


19 posted on 08/22/2021 12:19:50 AM PDT by gawatchman
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The unvaccinated who get the “disease” are also less likely to go to the hospital . Most are asymptotic


20 posted on 08/22/2021 12:50:30 AM PDT by ac-rep
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