Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by mike00632 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:10AM
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More people will die waiting unvaxxed for their antibody results than will die from vaccine side effects. Please use real numbers when you talk about vaccine side effects.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by nradov on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:17AM
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The real numbers are in the links I posted above, as well as this CDC presentation.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by nradov on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:57AM
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What a bizarre, deranged accusation. The CDC is hardly anti-vaxx. Rather the opposite
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
This isn't generally a reason to avoid vaccination for most of the population, however the risk / benefit ratio may be different for some sub-populations. In particular there has been a higher than expected rate of adverse cardiac events for adolescent males.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
So particularly for those adolescents who have already recovered from infection and have no other risk factors we should have a scientific discussion about whether vaccination makes sense from an evidence-based medicine perspective. Unfortunately the issue has been so politicized that any suggestion of caution often gets misinterpreted as being anti-vaccination.