“I don't believe that its good science if you still can contract the virus and can still spread it and are, in many states, still required to wear a mask and social distance after receiving it.”
The mumps vaccine is ‘only’ around 85% effective; since 2000 the number of mumps cases in the US range between 226 (in 2001) and 6,584 (in 2006). With an ‘R naught’ of 10 to 12, mumps is significantly more contagious than covid (‘R naught’ estimated at 2 to 2.5). The reason there are so few mumps cases despite how contagious it is? The US maintains herd immunity thru the MMR vaccine.
The Pfizer vaccine tested at 95% efficiency, the Modena vaccine at 94%. Of note, those who caught Covid after being vaccinated for these tests had less severe cases than the control group. The expectation is that once enough people are vaccinated, covid cases will become rare, and those cases that do occur will be less severe. (And this is just personal opinion, but masks and social distancing will no longer be required once we reach herd immunity if not sooner.)“They continue to claim the vaccines are safe, but there are many reports of anaphylaxis…”
21 cases from the first 1.9 million doses.“... thrombosis …”
6 cases, 6.8 million doses. That’s .000088%. (The chances of getting thrombosis from Covid is about 44 times higher than that, .0039%.)… and even 4178 cases of death attributed to the vaccine.”
That’s not accurate. 4,178 people died after getting the vaccine, but none of them have been linked to the vaccine. Around 130 million adults have gotten at least one vaccine dose. The death rate in the US has been increasing steadily since 2013 and was 8.728 per 1,000 people in 2019. [www.macrotrends.net] Based on that you would expect over a million people out of 130 million unvaccinated people to die in a year. I am glad they are looking into those 4,178 deaths, but it doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary.“… a virus with a 98.54% survival rate?”
Using that number, once the US approaches herd immunity (using 200,000,000 cases as that threshold), 2,929,000 will die. Another 12 million or so will be hospitalized (in a country with fewer than a million hospital beds.) Nearly a quarter of people hospitalized with COVID-19 develop injury to the heart tissue. [www.healthline.com] Another 20% have lung damage. [www.imperial.ac.uk] Nearly one-third of people with COVID-19 had lingering symptoms a median of 6 months after infection onset. Fatigue, breathing issues, and cardiac concerns like chest pain are common findings, as are neurologic symptoms. Of patients at the Center for Post-COVID Care at Mount Sinai with neurology referrals, "about 65% come in with cognitive complaints or brain fog". [www.medpagetoday.com] In evaluating the Covid risk isn’t just about living or dying. Many of those who live suffer effects after ‘recovering’ … and some of those effects are permanent.
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