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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by jaequery on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:53AM (#25113895)
When hospitals are overwhelmed by the so called “nothing but a cold”, and you have a heart attack or some other emergency and waiting outside the hospital, you will then understand when it’s too late.

Take a look at what’s currently happening at El Paso Texas. There’s no hospital to go to.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by xahrepap on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:05PM (#25114071)
This. A million times. I live in an area where people are so more often than not downplaying how big of a deal Covid itself is because "99% have no lasting symptoms. Just a bad cold is all." or "My spouse had it. NBD."

Mostly, you can't convince them otherwise. But I wish they could just see the effect it would have on non-covid hospital cases and think about that, if nothing else.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by nostromo on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:50PM (#25115440)
For the record, this happens every few years due to influenza too. Most recently in 2018:

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

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