FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine

Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by hendersoon on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:41AM (#28277539)

If you're in the western world, catch COVID right now, and aren't vaccinated, even if you aren't immunocompromised, diabetic, elderly, or obese odds are your chances of dying from COVID are higher than any other disease you've caught in your life.

Now it's true that chance is probably somewhere around 0.3% assuming you don't live in an area where hospitals are out of ICU beds and vents. But it's your _life_ at risk.

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by Izkata on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:17PM (#28279043)

Is you're above 50, yes. 40-50, odds are about the same as yearly flu. Under 40, you're more at risk from the yearly flu.

(I'm going from memory and may be a little off on the age ranges, but covid is heavily weighted towards the elderly while influenza is not)

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