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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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ScarletInMyVeins said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc...tts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html

So what's the point then?
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Let me get this straight. If I'm vaccinated for polio, and contract polio, does that mean I catch a mild cold?

My point is... Why get vaccinated if the vaccines don't work as they should?
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Is it really a vaccine if it doesn't fully prevent the illness it's intended to?
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SIMV, for what it's worth, I understand why you're asking the questions.
I believe you're missing one significant element in your statements: the variants/strains. From what I've read, the Covid vaccines should provide benefits as the virus mutates, but there are, obviously, chances that an impact could still be made on any vaccinated person.

Please take none of what I've written as my voice on whether you should get vaccinated or not.
 
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muffler dragon said:
For some months, I've been periodically checking on the Covid Infection Fatality Rate. I'm seeing numbers <1.5%.
Is anyone seeing figures that are much different than that?
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I saw Florida numbers this morning. Roughly 2.7 something million reported cases and a little under 40K reported deaths, so that looks like just under 1.5%, but I’m not sure how they actually calculate the fatality rate. Florida’s percentage is probably higher than the national average because of its high percentage of retired folks.

Nationally, I’ve seen just under 36.9 million reported cases and between 618K and 634K reported deaths, depending on the source, which would result in a simple calculation just below 1.7%. And those are reported numbers; I tend to believe that the number of reported cases is more under-reported than the number of Covid deaths would be (mainly due to people never realizing they had it) - so the fatality % is probably easily under 1.5%.
 
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Add at least a zero to the number of cases. There were no tests in the beginning when everyone had it. I'm an unreported case, for example, tested positive via an antibody test months after infection.
 
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Taosman said:
It's INCREASING evey day! Great news?
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Go back in your hole and quit fear mongering. We were at 4,000+ deaths per day just 6 months ago.

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so in 2019 up to 30% of the population caught the flu; but magically the data got masked and included in Covid numbers... same for historical flu deaths which accounted for as much as 60,000 deaths
 
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360,000 covid longhaulers!

Researchers estimate about 10% of COVID-19 patients become long haulers, according to a recent article from The Journal of the American Medical Association and a study done by British scientists. That’s in line with what UC Davis Health is seeing. (that's 10% of 37 million! have long term covid symtoms =360,000 launghaulers) That's a lot of lives disrupted.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html
 
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