A few riders had to pull out of last week’s Tour de France, not because they had COVID, but because they had COVID and were too unwell to race.
There appears to be a summer wave of COVID with, in some countries, hospitalisation rates going on.
I’m getting over a bad case (the worse for me). I took a test which was positive and have had a high temperature for a few days - in one 24 hours period I couldn’t get it below 40°C at all.
I woke up this morning and it looked like someone had tipped a whole bucket of water over the bed and now the fever is down a bit.
Not pleasant - and not just a common cold with sniffles.
Yeah, Both my wife and myself had similarly bad cases the start of this year. Didn’t really feel fully recovered for at least three weeks. She’d had it once before, back in 2021, but nothing like as bad as that. I didn’t catch it from her that time, but this one got us both at the same time.
I asked you what your definition of antivaxxer is and what is meant by “benefits outweigh the risks”?
I would comment that if the uptake of long established vaccines, i.e MMR is falling because of fears is concerning. Going forward or an open dialogue about all aspects of Covid vaccine risk , however minimal. Surely would be a long-term benefit.
I would define an antivaxxer as someone who keeps wanting to have "an open dialogue about all aspects of Covid vaccine risk " and closes their eyes to the tremendous volume of information on the billions of COVID vaccinations so keeping hoping that some negative would appear from nowhere.
The scientific research and studies are widely available if one cares to read them
Perplexity AI: How many Covid vaccinations have been given globally.
As of the most recent data available, over 13 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally. This figure includes all doses given, such as initial doses and booster shots. The data is compiled from various official sources and updated regularly to reflect the ongoing vaccination efforts around the world.
Of these how many resulted in death or injury?
Based on the search results provided, it’s difficult to give a precise global number of injuries or deaths resulting from COVID-19 vaccinations. However, I can provide some key points from the available information:
In the UK, according to official death registration data up to August 2021, there were 9 deaths that involved the vaccine (meaning the vaccine contributed to the death), of which 5 had the vaccine as the underlying cause (meaning the vaccine initiated the chain of events directly leading to the death).
The Yellow Card Scheme in the UK, which allows anyone to report suspected side effects, recorded 1,645 deaths where the person died shortly after receiving a coronavirus vaccine between December 9, 2020, and September 8, 2021. However, this number is likely a significant overestimate as these reports are not confirmed cases and many may have had other causes.
In the European Union, as of April 10, 2023, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) reported 11,448 deaths following COVID-19 vaccinations. However, it’s important to note that this doesn’t necessarily mean these deaths were caused by the vaccines.
In England and Wales, as of December 2022, there were 59 deaths registered involving COVID-19 vaccines causing adverse effects in therapeutic use, of which 51 had this as the underlying cause of death.
More than 13,000 people have submitted claims to a U.S. government fund that compensates people for COVID vaccine injuries. However, only about a dozen people have been compensated so far, nearly all for a heart problem caused by the vaccines.
It’s crucial to understand that these numbers should be viewed in the context of the billions of vaccine doses administered globally. The search results also emphasize that for most people, the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the risks, with one estimate suggesting that vaccines prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide.
The EU countries decided to resume using Astra Zeneca after a few weeks so they probably were wrong to suspend it, it was a knee jerk decision based on inadequate data.
The decision to withdraw it three years later was because of the lack of demand so nothing to do with the earlier suspension.
The lack of demand was likely due to the virus mutating, the mRNA vaccines were updated for this.
There is a risk of using a bot to generate such answers. All else apart, two of the stats almost contradict each other and certainly should not both be included (points 1 and 4), And the context is also misleading -each stat should be used in its own context - comparing UK deaths with global vaccination figures tells us absolutely nothing.
You mean this;
" Following pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s admission in U.K. court documents that its vaccine against COVID-19 has the potential to cause Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), a rare side effect associated with blood clotting, doctors in India said this is not new information and that they are “well aware of the warning which has been available in India as an insert with the vaccine since the time it was introduced for general public here”.
They added that any adverse event associated with the vaccine would have occurred within 21 days to a month of the first dose.
A report in British newspaper The Daily Telegraph stated that in a legal document submitted to the High Court in London in February for a group action being brought by 51 claimants, AstraZeneca admitted that the vaccine developed with the University of Oxford to protect against Covid-19 may cause TTS in “very rare cases”.
“It is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS.
The causal mechanism is not known. Further, TTS can also occur in the absence of the AZ vaccine (or any vaccine).
Causation in any individual case will be a matter for expert evidence,”
In the same court case, very rare was defined as one case in every 70 million vaccinations.
Everything has risks, look at aspirin;
For 50-year-old men, taking a full-sized, 325 mg aspirin every day to prevent heart disease and stroke carries a risk of 10.4 deaths per 100,000 men per year over and above their overall death risk.
Or potatoes;
100 g of potatoes contains an average of 1-15 mg of toxic glycoalkaloids,
for humans, doses in the range of 3-6 mg of potato glycoalkaloids per kg body weight are considered potentially lethal.
COVID-19 restrictions could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the US states that refused to institute them, a new study has found.
Between 118,000 and 248,000 more Americans would have survived the pandemic if all states had followed some restrictions practiced in Northeastern states, the most effective responses were mask mandates and vaccine requirements.
At its most dramatic, Mississippi — the state with the weakest restrictions — saw five times as many deaths per capita as Massachusetts, a state with among the strongest restrictions, the study found.
Edit: I noticed yesterday that Elon has started posting anti-vaxx memes on Twitter.
Disappointing for a supposedly super-intelligent person.
Comparing Mississippi to New York is like apples and watermelons or something. Mississippi frequently tops the “worst” lists: poorest state, least healthy population, and not well-educated compared to other states. The folks there didn’t have much of a chance, mandates or not.
