(04-04-2024, 11:39 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-04-2024, 10:24 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: I'm with you on taking it if you are at higher risk (i.e. age or pre-existing respiratory ailments), but what is your position on getting the vaccine for otherwise younger, healthier individuals? Especially those who have natural immunity/resistance from having had Covid once or multiple times before?

My position is that otherwise healthier and younger individuals were dying or requiring significant amounts of resources to treat and the vaccine helped us to conserve our health system resources that would've otherwise been completely overwhelmed. I don't think people realize just how limited critical care and inpatient facility resources are in a place like Jacksonville where over million people have just 1,000 beds for which to compete if they need care (58,000 for 22 million people in Florida total). The science indicates that even those with natural immunity benefited from vaccination after illness and we didn't have to admit them either. Boosters were developed to help with emergent strains of the virus and we've reached the point on the curve that only the most at risk need to worry about it.

Has there been an update to the Cleveland Clinic study from a couple of years ago?  As I recall, that one showed negligible benefits to being vaccinated on top of having previously had Covid and recovered already.  I just think negligible benefits combined with the risk, however small, of myocarditis makes getting vaccinated in that scenario unnecessary and probably unwise but also should be a conversation to be had between patient and doctor.  My doctor and I had a conversation at some point in '21 and he was not in favor of me at my age, a non-smoker and having already had Covid in '20 and again in '21 getting the vaccine.  

I've not had it since then unless the symptoms are so weak now as to be undetectable as Covid.  My '20 bout was definitely the weirdest illness I'd ever dealt with and also had lingering minor symptoms for probably 6 months after.  '21 was definitely a step down from '20 with no loss of smell this time around and a much shorter recovery.  Much more like a bad cold. If I've had it since then, it would have been indistinguishable from any other short term cold I've dealt with in life.

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