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Should you get a COVID booster? Here are 7 things to consider.
(www.usatoday.com)
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The vaccine does not stop covid, it does not make you immune, it does not stop you from spreading covid and you will have to get another dose after about 3 months. And then there are possible adverse effects like myocarditis, especially for young men. All this should be considered.
There are other ways to strengthen your immune system. They should be considered too. Most people that have died due to covid have been severely ill, morbidly obese or very old. Eating healthy, getting enough exercise and making sure Vitamin D levels are sufficient will make covid much less dangerous. I much prefer that to constantly getting new boosters.
Tell that to the healthy 45 year old father of two who I watched die in 2020.
How are we not done with these same old stale lies yet? Covid infections cause a greater increase in risk of myocarditis. I literally just had a guy in his 30s with post-viral myocarditis on my unit a couple weeks ago.
You know what strengthens your immune system against an evolving viral threat? Booster vaccines that teach your adaptive immune system how to fight that exact viral threat.
Eat healthy, exercise, make sure you maintain your vitamin D levels AND ALSO get the god damned vaccine please.
It does.
Not to all strains, and not completely.
It does, by reducing symptoms like cough, which spreads the virus in the air, and by lowering your chances of having it on the first place.
I haven't checked this one, but even if true, it's a small price to pay to not having my friends and loved ones dying.
Which are extremely unlikely to happen in comparison to dying of covid.
There isn't s way to strengthen your immune system, because it doesn't work that way. You either have a healthy immune system or you are immunocompromised, which may happen when you are particularly fucking up your body with drugs, going through rapid environment changes or suffering with AIDS.
People with a immune system that is too strong (that is, more aggressive and more wasteful of body resources) actually tend to develop auto immune diseases.
Yeah. And they still deserved to fucking live.
Those are indeed good practices that will lead to a healthier life, and may affect your chances with covid (especially exercise if it's cardio).
However, COVID doesn't care. Being healthier mostly means that you can take a bit more physical damage on average than other people while your immune system tries to fight the infection. It will still fuck you up and possibly cause permanent damage.
Oh, and if you have bad genetics, got wet from the rain in a cold environment, or is just way too stressed out from work? Your chances are pulled down just as much.
Just nitpicking this part, cause you are correct about the rest -- not even the CDC claims that the vaccines prevent infection. "The primary goal of the COVID-19 vaccination program is to prevent severe illness and death" and "symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection," not asymptomatic infection (which is far from harmless)
An effective vaccine reduces numbers across the board. As mentioned in the article you cited, "Vaccine effectiveness is a measure of how well vaccination protects people against health outcomes such as infection, symptomatic illness, hospitalization, and death."
That is, fewer people get sick, and fewer sick people develop symptoms, and fewer symptomatic people are hospitalized, and fewer hospitalized people die.
It seems that @HMH would like all those numbers reduced to zero, which is obviously impossible