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People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study
Fortune ^ | 12/13/2022 | ERIN PRATER

Posted on 12/14/2022 7:06:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash.

Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine. During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn’t received the COVID vaccine.

They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found.

The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers “exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users,” the authors wrote.

Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.”

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accidents; covid; insanetheory; skipped; vaccine
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because they are still alive?…


21 posted on 12/14/2022 7:11:47 AM PST by EEGator
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To: KevinB

These people know what they are doing. All they have to do is compare 2020 data to 2022 data to get the desired result to make us feel guilty for not obeying.


22 posted on 12/14/2022 7:11:56 AM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

GOVERNMENT IS WAY TOO BIG and was never supposed to control our daily lives.

“encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults”


23 posted on 12/14/2022 7:13:19 AM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is there not a single print publication with any integrity?


24 posted on 12/14/2022 7:14:08 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: z3n

I imagine, also, that those who declined the shot tend to be younger, and young people tend to drive more recklessly. There is no indication that the study accounted for confounding variables like that. But they do seem to have gotten the conclusion that they were seeking.


25 posted on 12/14/2022 7:15:10 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: KevinB

I guess I need to buy a motorcycle helmet and put it on while driving my car.


26 posted on 12/14/2022 7:15:27 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Also at higher risk of dying of old age.


27 posted on 12/14/2022 7:15:35 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: SubMareener

I guess we can start adding well at least they weren’t in a severe car accident.


28 posted on 12/14/2022 7:15:59 AM PST by xp38 (!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you don’t drive they’ll run you over


29 posted on 12/14/2022 7:16:02 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks like the study confused correlation with causation. Did they look at number of hours behind the wheel, for example? Maybe the unvaccinated stepped on more sidewalk cracks too. Maybe they are just out and about more, being less fearful of the virus hype. Maybe they are more likely to have jobs involving driving. Less likely to be able to work from home. The possibilities are endless. Such a silly study!


30 posted on 12/14/2022 7:16:13 AM PST by Meah (The terrain is everything. ~Louis Pasteur )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pure bloods are also more likely to be abducted by aliens.


31 posted on 12/14/2022 7:16:18 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

women & minorities hardest hit


32 posted on 12/14/2022 7:16:37 AM PST by wny
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This line of thought must have come from Fauci. He is solely responsible for the entire pandemic and should be prosecuted.


33 posted on 12/14/2022 7:17:26 AM PST by chopperk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think you’ll find that those who didn’t get the vax were more likely to be out and about. It probably correlates with being out and about.


34 posted on 12/14/2022 7:17:34 AM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.”

You could also theorize that people who fell for the lies of public health officials might also "be suseptable to falling for the next set of lies put forward by offcials; public health or otherwise."

35 posted on 12/14/2022 7:18:03 AM PST by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And let me guess. LBGTQWTF of color hardest hit.


36 posted on 12/14/2022 7:18:10 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

or

people that did not get the shots are/were less likely to be staying home and are out & about.


38 posted on 12/14/2022 7:18:26 AM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whenever I see an article about a “study” I prepare to be amused or annoyed. This one is both. Amused at the stupidity of the people who did the “study” and the writer of the article. Annoyed that this is just one more way they are trying to force people to get the jab.

Amazing how these people totally ignore and suppress other correlations that don’t support their worldview.


39 posted on 12/14/2022 7:19:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because those who haven’t gotten the Jim Jones Jab are able to drive? They’re not having cell formations in their veins, myocarditis, pericarditis, strokes, and seizures?


40 posted on 12/14/2022 7:19:37 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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