Re:New‐onset autoimmune phenomena post‐Covid‐19 vaccination
by manwe150 on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:38AM
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Nearly 0.2% of the US has died of COVID, so he can’t be that far off on his estimate, not knowing the age of yourself or other readers.
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Re:New‐onset autoimmune phenomena post‐Covid‐19 vaccination
by refurb on Monday January 10, 2022 @07:42AM
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He said the lower bound was 0.5%.
So as a healthy 30 year you’re saying my risk of death is 0.5%?
And note the CDC said they’ll be providing data on who “died with covid” versus who “died from covid”.
Re:New‐onset autoimmune phenomena post‐Covid‐19 vaccination
by manwe150 on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:05PM
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Yeah, 0.5% might be a plausible lower estimate for his statement of an average member of the US population, but is probably a bit low. That assumes that 50% of the US population already got COVID, 0% got vaccinated, and none of them get COVID again. What we actually know is that re-infection with omicron is fairly common, that there are still many (unvaccinated) people have not yet ever been infected, and that the majority of the US is vaccinated.
So, I can't say your risk, since you didn't mention if you are vaccinated. Being vaccinated is statistically the best way to reduce the risk of death or other severe long-term health issues (other than getting younger) relative to your baseline risk, largely independent of age (the trials for very young children are still on-going). My sources for this are talking to doctors and reading the official reports.