Over 12 billion doses administered. Less than 20K deaths (globally). If the doc told you, "this vaccine comes with a risk of serious illness or death in one in six hundred thousand" would you take it?
Everything in life has risk factors just like one trade to another trade. Covid and Vaccines are no different from other diseases and their associated vaccines.
For example, a healthy individual that lives alone, no children, and doesn't socialize much...its a person with
less risk factors of exposure to Covid than someone that has children, socializes, married with health problems.
Obviously, the person in the latter group has higher risk factors. Thus, the risk of getting a serious Covid infection or death is much higher than a healthy person living alone who rarely socializes.
Simply, it's obvious which person should be vaccinated against Covid and which person most likely may not consider vaccination.
- Based upon my lifestyle, teenagers, traveling again and risk factors...if a Doctor told me the same...I would take the Covid vaccine.
Oh wait, I did in fact talk to my Doctor...had a complete physical, had blood chemistry work and he reviewed my medical history...he then recommended the Moderna vaccine because I was not suitable for Pfizer or Janssen due to having medical allergies to a few of their ingredients.
My friends, military buddies, my relatives, my family, people on my street (neighbors except for one), and myself are fully vaccinated...boosted too. Hundreds of individuals.
- No severe Covid illness and no vaccine injuries although there are a few vaccinated people that should have died long before Covid because they have extreme high risk factors (e.g. +80 years of age, cancer survivors, heart problems, kidney problems).
In contrast, the one exception is an unvaccinated neighbor that lost his unvaccinated wife to Covid.
There have been a few vaccinated people that still became infected with Covid but they are highly socializing with higher risk factors (e.g. age, health problems, occupation et cetera) but their Covid illness was mild and they recovered quickly without hospitalization...
That's the purpose of the Covid vaccine. It lowers the risk of a severe Covid illness for those that become infected with Covid because they have higher risk factors
prior to their infection.
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