In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–like symptoms

Re:In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–... by the12354 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:34AM (#30035801)

Just a heads up:

<< From what I can hear in Canada, unvaccinated make about 10% of population and about 50% hospitalizations, that makes the vaccine reduce your chances by about 5x

When 50 % of the total hospitalizations are 10 % of the entire population(unvaccinated pop.), the vaccinated 90 % need to be reduced to an equal 10 % too(1/9 * 90 % = 10 %), which means it reduces your chance by 9x not 5x

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Re:In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–... by john_moscow on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:55AM (#30035892)

You are right. On the other hand, we are not trying to increase the vaccination rate from 0% to 100%, it's more about convincing the remaining 10% to go, so the effect on the actual hospital utilization would be much lower. Plus, we don't know the hospital bed number per age (how many actual 30-year-olds are the problem?) and whether Omicron has a different picture.

So, in my mind, the amount of guesswork that's currently on the table warrants a tax-paid advertising campaign, but all censorship and forced vaccination measures do much more harm than good.

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