Posted on 06/04/2023 12:53:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hospitalization risk exists as only 20% of US adults receive booster dose: ‘Uptake has been quite low’
Adults who aren’t current on their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses may have "relatively little remaining protection" against hospitalization compared to those who haven’t been vaccinated at all, suggests a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Dr. Shana Johnson, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician in Scottsdale, Arizona, was not involved in the CDC study but reviewed its findings.
The good news, Johnson said, is that the bivalent mRNA vaccine protects against the most severe COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalization and critical disease (ICU admission and death), Johnson said. The not-so-good news: The durability or duration of protection was not great, she noted.
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If you had COVID twice, you are, in my mind, as vaccinated as it is possible to get.
That’s what I think, but there’s the issue of proving it.
I still occasionally get asked about getting vaxxed by medical personnel.
Yes, the Covid was April 2020 and just this past winter, so I suspect it was one of the variants. It didn’t have the symptoms that the original strain was known for, but the PCR tests came back positive.
My opinion is that, over 60, OR diabetic, OR BMI >40, OR on certain immunosuppressive drugs (particularly rituxan), you should CONSIDER getting a COVID vaccine.
It appears that if you are in those categories and have prior infection, your risk is less.
It’s very uncommon for me to see an at-risk person nowadays who is unvaccinated. And the “system” is moving backwards in terms of defining a proper series of shots since the original products have been withdrawn and the current ones are authorized for one time only.
In my opinion, it would have been ideal to vaccinate only over-60s with Pfizer or Moderna at 0, 2, and 6 months, and then to stop, only for those who chose vaccination, of course.
But, we have to work with what we have been given to work with.
After the vax didn’t stop transmission, they adopted “reduces risk of severe illness and hospitalization.”
This has never been proven to my knowledge. With the already very low incidence of critical illness, I don’t see how you could come to a clear conclusion. More BS. The CDC will ride this claim like others, until someone disproves it.
I am over 60 but aside from the mast cell disorder, I am in otherwise very good health.
I did consider it, thought long and hard, looked at my reactions in the past and decided it was not worth the risk.
My life is in God’s hands and HE decides when and how I die. After having survived a MRSA infection that should have killed me, I do not worry about the when or how any more. Not that I’m looking forward to the process, mind you, but again, that is in God’s hands.
But.... We were told these vaccines would give everyone 99.9% immunity. Masks worked. Social isolation would flatten the curve in two weeks. Were we being lied to?
Yes, yes and yes.
Same here, never got the jab and never got the Coof
RIP? You must mean Bush because Carvey is still aluve.
Dang! I thought Carvey had passed. Thanks for the correction.
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