Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people

Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday February 05, 2022 @10:36PM (#30229138)

I was 30 when I got COVID in October of 2020. I spent 6 months recovering from the illness with symptoms ranging from myocarditis to Reynauds syndrome. As I type this message, pain erupts in my right lung as I inhale. If I had the vaccine available to me at that time maybe I wouldn’t be experiencing a constant reminder of my illness every time I inhale.

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Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol... by ensan on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:27PM (#30229433)

1- We’re talking about boosters, not vaccines in general.

2- Sorry you’re unlucky. But even fully vaccinated people there are going to be cases like this. Such is life.

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Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol... by Arnt on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:11AM (#30230725)

I think what GP meant to say is "I would've taken that vaccine/booster to reduce the chance of suffering these six months".

It's a game of chance.

Digressing, some people suffer much more than others from the vaccines, and ditto from the disease. I've wondered whether they're the same. Is it the same unknown factor at work? Does suffering for days from the vaccines mean that you're someone who'd suffer for months from the disease, or even die?

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Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol... by nradov on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:14AM (#30233198)

There is no direct correlation between severity of vaccine side effects and level of protection from disease.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-i...

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Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol... by Arnt on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:31PM (#30236060)

That's not what I had in mind, actually.

Consider two possibilities, both fairly remote and I have absolutely no reason to believe that they're real.

First, suppose that the people who suffer badly from the vaccines/virus do so 100% because of some factor that comes and goes, such as having slept badly. In this case, suffering badly from a vaccine does not mean that you would suffer badly from the disease.

Second, suppose that the people who suffer badly do so 100% because of some genetic factor, such as having a single gene for a particular recessive disease. In this case, if you suffer badly from a vaccine it means that you've saved yourself even worse suffering when the disease finally finds you.

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