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Re:I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated P... by mcguire on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:21PM (#28065803)
Children can still be infected and transmit the disease, no?

Vaccination does not prevent transmission, but it does reduce it.

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Re:I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated P... by Alupis on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:31PM (#28065921)
It would seem it's exceptionally rare, and even more rare to develop complications or death.[1]

And the only people they can transit it to that would be "at-risk" are people who've had the vaccine available to them for free, for months and chosen explicitly to not get it. That's their choice, and we should not cripple the country over it.

[1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COV...

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Re:I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated P... by mcguire on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:36PM (#28066690)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.10.20210492v...

It's a good thing only about 2.7% of the adult population of US is immunocompromised.

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Re:I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated P... by Alupis on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:22PM (#28067210)
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, forgive me.

We can't base policy off something that effects an extreme minority of the population, like this 2.7% statistic you cited. We'd never do anything if that were the case...

The affected people should take all necessary precautions available (get vaccinated if applicable, wear a N95 or KN95 mask, shelter isolated at home, etc). Everyone else needs to go back to work, school, stores, restaurants, etc.

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