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Pfizer for teens?

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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    NVintage wrote: »
    I hope this doesn't get deleted for being political. It is a subject of health and fitness, though! Do you all think that the risks of covid outweigh the risks of adverse reactions to vaccine in pre-teens and teenagers? Is it worth it for healthy kids to be vaccinated?

    ABSOLUTELY. Full stop.
  • KeithBarrows
    KeithBarrows Posts: 34 Member
    Quoting myself:
    @cmriverside - I will abstain from answering. My experience has shown all too vividly that no matter my answer I will be vilified. And that right there is enough of an answer.
    :lol: You mad?
    I'll answer this, but all the rest of your bizarre rant? No thanks.

    Quod erat demonstrandum.
  • KeithBarrows
    KeithBarrows Posts: 34 Member
    write an irrational rant and then complain about people calling it an irrational rant.

    Okay :*

    <sigh/> Ok.

    Still QED.

    As a point of education:
    An ad hominem argument is a personal attack against the source of an argument, rather than against the argument itself. Essentially, this means that ad hominem arguments are used to attack opposing views indirectly, by attacking the individuals or groups that support these views.

    Ad hominem arguments can take many forms, from basic name-calling to more complex rhetoric. For example, an ad hominem argument can involve simply insulting a person instead of properly replying to a point that they raised, or it can involve questioning their motives in response to their criticism of the current state of things.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    edited November 2021
    Why can you NOT sue for injury after receiving the jab? (That is a FIRST!)

    No, it's not a first.

    What IS the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited November 2021
    Moar explanation, I really feel like people just don't understand what is meant, whether through lack of comprehension or lack of information.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/covid-vocabulary-pandemic-words/620351/

    In addition to clarifying a few commonly misused terms there are two long paragraphs in this article about Vaccine-Enhanced stronger immunity than just "natural."
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited November 2021
    I, my wife and our (adult) son are NOT vaxxed. All of us got Covid early (before tests, before vaxs). All of us live in a densely populated area. All of us have been subjected to dozens of people who tested positive. All of us have NOT gotten sick again. There is something to say about a Natural Immunity! 13x better than the vax according to latest, and largest, review of infection done to date.

    Just remember, there are about 37 million people in the USA alone who have tested positive, were never hospitalized and are now carrying a Natural Immunity to Covid.

    I am NOT advocating skipping the vax. If you at all feel you need it - GO GET IT! Just be aware that there are 37 million of us that no longer feel we need something that nature already gave us.

    Give us your "study".


    This recent story with CDC numbers published last week disagrees:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/health/covid-vaccine-protects-better-previous-infection/index.html

    That link doesn't say what you think it does.
    • It only looks at a group hospitalized for COVID symptoms
    • It shows unvaxxed admissions are 5.5 times higher than vaxxed COVID Admissions
    • It didn't include any datapoints on natural immunity from prior infection

    So, it supports the expectation that getting vaxxed reduces the chance of hospitalization (common knowledge). It doesn't compare natural immunity from prior infection with vaccination.

    Maybe the journalist is an idiot, or was just tasked with doing a pro vaccination story and tried to make it fit as a slander at the Israeli study (which I'm not defending).

    Myself, I've had COVID andx2 shots, need to schedule my booster. I also urge everyone to get vaxxed.

    But for national policy, I think we should allow a mandate exemption for people who tested positive and recovered. This approach would undermine a key part of the anti-vaxx platform with minimal risk for the population.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    Just published online yesterday from U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control) this report on the research -
    What is added by this report?

    Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection (95% confidence interval = 2.75–10.99).

    What are the implications for public health practice?

    All eligible persons should be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible, including unvaccinated persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm

    Thanks for the link, it does support the vaxx is better at preventing hospitalization than prior infection!
  • sheahughes
    sheahughes Posts: 133 Member
    I had a google out of curiosity because I recalled hearing that approx 150 police officers from NSW had been put on leave due to refusing the mandatory covid vaccines (https://www.google.com/search?q=police+officers+on+leave+covid+vaccine+queensland&oq=police+officers+on+leave+covid+vaccine+queensland&aqs=chrome..69i57.16048j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) and it seems like very few Australian's serving in the Police Service are refusing to be vaccinated. However, Australia has aa *very* different cultural outlook to America, so these results of course don't apply to USA. I would be greatly surprised to learn that there were massive numbers (1000's-10 000's) of police/ambulance/medical/firefighting staff who refuse to be vaccinated in the USA.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    All the really important stuff with links to the current research written in laymans' terms with explanations of "What does that mean"

    https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-effective-are-covid-19-vaccines/
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    edited February 2022
    https://youtu.be/D6RsXN_Wars

    Most children have natural immunity
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    edited February 2022
    I'm homeschooling until next year, but our area's (in the South US) public schools spiked with about 35 kids reporting positive Jan.7-13th and this week only 1out of about 3,000 kids.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2022
    NVintage wrote: »
    I'm homeschooling until next year, but our area's (in the South US) public schools spiked with about 35 kids reporting positive Jan.7-13th and this week only 1out of about 3,000 kids.

    Don't really know the actual numbers, but our schools her in the ABQ metro area had a huge spike in January along with everywhere else. My work was crazy in January with positive cases...we had to shut down a couple of locations for about a week because we couldn't staff. My wife and I and our kids also caught it in early January...we're all fully vaccinated and wife and I are boosted...my youngest (9) and I were pretty sick, but only for 2 days and then it was like nothing happened. My wife had a runny nose and my 11 year old was asymptomatic other than saying he felt like he couldn't clear his throat.

    In general, it seems to be petering out here and numbers are dropping fast...but January was nuts all over the state. Pretty much everyone in our circle of friends and my mom and her boyfriend caught it in January except for 2 people who somehow either managed not to get it or they had it and were asymptomatic. It's just surprising because they are a husband and wife personal trainers who own their own gym and they're around people and right up in their faces everyday, all day.
  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    NVintage wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/D6RsXN_Wars

    Most children have natural immunity

    Uh, nope. Children are not some magical creature or different species that has immunity that is somehow nonexistent in adult humans.

    Heck, even some other species DON'T have immunity to this. So far, the species we know that can catch covid from us humans are: ferrets, cats (including big wild cats), dogs, mink, bank voles, bats, hamsters, pigs, rabbits, racoon dogs, tree shrews, and deer.

    This many animals are susceptible to this virus, and we're supposed to believe that somehow the young of OUR species is safe, when even other species are catching covid?

    Our kids are not that special, unfortunately.