Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by mrhands69 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:49PM
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What is the risk for people who are vaccinated? There should be some level of personal responsibility at this point. Everyone has had a chance to get the vaccine.
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by estebank on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:58PM
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Not everyone can take the vaccine. Which is why everyone that can, should, for everyone's sake.
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by mrhands69 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:08PM
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What's the percentage of the population in the United States that can't get vaccinated for health reasons?
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by estebank on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:19PM
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People with allergies and pregnant can get the vaccine for the most part, but because I can't find relevant numbers, lets say (incorrectly) that anyone with a food allergy can't get the vaccines: that'd be 32 million people (https://www.aafa.org/allergy-facts/).
~60 million are <12 years of age, which means that they aren't eligible for the vaccine at this time, and I've seen reports that it is unlikely we'll have vaccines for the youngest among us. So 82% of the population is the absolute most we can vaccinate.
With the demographic numbers and the (admittedly terrible proxy of) allergy numbers, 86 million people wouldn't be vaccinated (~25%). With a 0.2% percent fatality rate, we are talking about 170,000 deaths if all of them get infected.
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by makomk on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:38PM
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As I understand it, pretty much the only people who aren't eligible for vaccination in the US are those who've had an allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine or one of its ingredients specifically and under-12s, though there are some additional observation requirements for people with a history of certain other allergic reactions. The former is quite a small group and children are at really low risk: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-only-0-005-of-covid-infe...
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by briefcomment on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:02PM
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Ah yes, as soon as the world stops cultivating peanuts to accommodate my lethal (and heritable) peanut allergy. It should be a no brainer after all, with the nearly infinite other foods we have available as substitutes.
Re:Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln,...
by estebank on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:09PM
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Do you feel like prevalent labeling and stringent segregation policies in food handling to accommodate you aren't equivalent? And if someone's dish sends you into anaphylaxis at a dinner party, the host won't be going "Shouldn't have come then! I refuse to live in peanut-fear!".
Also, the chance of being disabled for a long while if you are young without comorbidity is far from 0%. It is quite significant, certainly above 0.5%.