Any thoughts on why it’s getting worse for younger folks and insight into what kinda condition were they in?
Boosters are being recommended by the administration for everyone. What does that mean to you?
Thank you for posing real information. On day 9 of recovery with Vac on board. So grateful for it and sign me up for a booster. This stuff is wicked
We’re they ripped AF and unvaccinated?
People still won’t see it. A guy who graduated HS with my wife was on facebook yesterday saying that all the claims about hospitals being full of COVID patients is a lie. This was only one day after somebody he knows, who graduated a few years ahead of him in HS, collapsed and died in her home from COVID. Another family friend from the same community had a cousin die from the virus last year. Her twin sister died from it recently because the family refused to vaccinate. For some people, this vaccine thing has become like some strange religious belief and they reject even what is right before their eyes. Nothing can be done but to let this run its course.
Any truth to waiting longer for the second shot is more beneficial? I read about it and waited 4.5 weeks to get mine. My wife had her first shot 3 weeks ago, I asked her to wait 5 weeks to get her second based on what I read. Most things I read said to wait a minimum of 4 weeks, but not over 6 weeks.
Not a chance in hell it came from a bat. But a virus being played with using GF is different than one purposefully designed to increasingly become more virulent or target different ages as it progresses. I was kinda joking about the bioweapon theory tongue in cheek with a buddy yesterday but it’s basically straight out of a Micheal Crichton book.
There are possibilities that lie between bioweapon and bat-eating. That China was doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses and one escaped containment due to incompetence seems to be the most likely scenario.
You’re wasting your time explaining this to these simpletons. I guess at this point, we will have to just let nature take its course. And, when its over, the IQ level of our society will have increased. These folks have made their choice and decided stupidity is the way to go. They have planted their flag in the ground. I just wish they had some pride and honor, and stayed home to fight the virus, instead of tucking their tails between their legs and running to the hospital once they get scared.
Don’t worry Doc. Once Molnupiravir gets an EUA in October, everything will change.
All of a sudden, their YouTube videos and hillbilly expertise is tossed aside as they run to Fauci and his nationwide gang of snake poison peddlers to fix them.
Apparently, the staying home is starting to happen. Like I mentioned previously, I know someone who collapsed and died at home with it this past weekend.
I’m not sure comparisons to the flu will help convince folks since the vast majority of people don’t get flu shots.
The vaccine has clearly worked, and if there is a need for a booster shot for it to continue to work, it seems we should all be willing to take it. If the alternative is to become one of the hospitalized or dead, seems like an easy decision, right?
He is on the MS gulf coast. If you are in Dekalb County, it is coming if it isn’t already happening. I think Marshall medical in Albertville has nearly 40 hospitalized with a dozen in ICU and a half dozen on vents. But keep in mind that the overall hospitalization rate is still pretty low, like around a percent or so. When so many get infected, it doesn’t take a high percentage to overwhelm hospitals.
Its sad. Really is. Especially if pride and disinformation kept this person from getting vaccinated.
As I understand it, her whole family is stubbornly antivax. Her father has it, but he already was dying of other serious health issues. Her son has it. My understanding is that she died in his arms as he was living with her and his grandfather while caring for them. My mom knows well the lady who died and as best I can tell, it has had no effect on her stance against being vaxxed. It breaks my heart.
He was specifically asking about young 20-40ish relatively healthy adults. Your point still stands....I don't necessarily think it is affecting the young different as much as the spreadability + that age group being largely unvaxxed is causing those numbers to rise. Without vaxxes I shudder to think of what things would look like right now .....
Yes, it’s worked at preventing serious disease. Nobody is denying that ITT.
It is probably pretty difficult to get a controlled study on the efficacy duration for a vaccine verse natural immunity when the vaccine is this new and the virus isn’t much older. The safe bet is for everyone who is able to continue to get vaccinated as recommended when it’s shown efficacy is starting to wane.
I'm not advocating for people not to get the vaccines, so don't put that on me.
Lol.
I don't see these scenarios as very realistic. The additional immunity from a booster vs just vaxxed is not going to make anywhere near the difference that vaxxed makes vs unvaxxed. Also, so many people are going to have immunity from having been infected with delta that the overall infections/hospitalizations will be dropping by the time most of us are due to get a booster. We aren't likely to see restrictions like you mention because this pandemic will be waning within the next month or two. Unless we get a weird, vaccine-resistant mutation, which is (IMO) unlikely.
I think stump was right and that immunity from the vaccines (and from previous infection) will last for years and that the booster is not going to be very necessary for most of us, regardless of whether the gubment starts recommending them. Maybe for the immunocompromised and for the very old it makes sense, but antibody titers are not the only indication of immunity and the studies that I have seen seem to indicate that we get long-lasting immunity from both vaccines and from having the virus. Color me skeptical on getting the booster. If that makes me a tinfoil hat-wearer, I don't care.
