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  • #2007593
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    It works as intended – after getting my second shot, I got Covid.

    It could be that without the vaccine, I would have gotten Covid anyhow, since they did recently install a 5g tower a couple of blocks away, but it is what it is.

    A question for all the CR experts:

    Is it too late to take Ivermectin now, and how does the infertily rate of 85% hold up for people taking it with Covid vs. as a prophylaxis?

    TIA

    Oh, and b”H no need to say Tehillim, I’m feeling great; thanks for asking.

    #2007604
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    I don’t know which direction the sarcasm is going or coming. But for those questioning, the vaccine doesn’t prevent you completely from getting COVID. It helps to prevent it, helps to prevent you from spreading it, and helps to prevent you from getting sick from it. Most fully vaccinated people only know they have COVID because they took a mandatory test, not because they felt sick.

    #2007607
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I felt ill. Testing was not mandatory for me.

    #2007616
    ujm
    Participant

    The parallel question necessary when asking the titled question is what are the risks of taking the vaccine.

    The honest answer is that all the the risks aren’t yet known.

    #2007621
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    The parallel question necessary when asking the titled question is what are the risks of taking the vaccine.

    Also what are the risks of Covid. Which are somewhat known (death is a common side effect, as well as serious mental and physical issues in some), but the same way we don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine, we don’t know the long term effects of Covid (for those who survive).

    #2007624
    Health
    Participant

    DY -“It works as intended – after getting my second shot, I got Covid.”

    I hope no one believes you, because the Anti-Vaxxers are clinging to any excuse Not to get Vaccinated!
    According to VP Pence, you can’t talk to the American people, like Biden did.

    I miss those days when we had Real leaders.

    BTW, even after 2 Covid vaccines, it takes a while for the Antibodies to build up.
    But I didn’t miss your sarcasm.

    #2007639
    Gadolhadorah
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    All the studies released thusfar, both in the U.S. and EY, seem to confirm that those vaccinated have materially lower rates of infection, hospitalization and death than those unvaccinated. The rates and intensityof side-effects, albeit based on very short-term results, also clearly support the notion that risks are lower with vaccination. No one claims the vaccine totally prevents Covid but the few studies of breakthrough cases show that the large percentage of those infected were either asymptomatic or had only mild symptoms.
    For those CR participants still in denial, hoping not to see your photo with a candle in the background on the News page.g

    #2007640
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Health: According to an antibodies test I took, I had strong spike protein antibodies levels.

    #2007642
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    It seems to me a side effect of the vaccine is becoming a troll.

    Or was that the covid? 🤔

    😉

    #2007645
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Or maybe the Regeneron? 🤷‍♂️

    #2007647
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Or maybe that was the intended effect of the vaccine, and preventing serious illness is an unintended side effect which the evil government didn’t account for.

    #2007649
    ujm
    Participant

    “death is a common side effect, as well as serious mental and physical issues in some”

    Actually, it is very uncommon in unvaccinated young healthy people. It is also very uncommon in unvaccinated people who previously recovered from COVID-19.

    #2007651
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Actually, it is very uncommon in unvaccinated young healthy people.

    Unfortunately a lot of young people who thought they were healthy weren’t, and died.

    It is also very uncommon in unvaccinated people who previously recovered from COVID-19.

    Not uncommon to get it again, and vaccines have been proven to further reduce illness in recovered Covid patients.

    #2007655
    Reb Eliezer
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    #2007659
    ujm
    Participant

    “Not uncommon to get it again”

    It’s not uncommon for vaccinated people to get Covid.

    “vaccines have been proven to further reduce illness in recovered Covid patients.”

    Booster shots have also been proven to further reduce illness in the vaccinated. Yet very few people got booster shots.

    #2007660
    Health
    Participant

    DY -“Health: According to an antibodies test I took, I had strong spike protein antibodies levels”

    Well maybe you got the Delta variant.
    The vaccines help with this variant – because it produces Antibodies that directly attack the Covid 19 Virus.

    #2007661

    Refuah Shleima. Common sense advice – lead healthy lifestyle after that and do an overall medical checkup.

    I am not sure why we are still debating pro- and against vaccines. Historical hesitancy of vaccines and greater caution in testing is due to unbalanced risks – vaccine given to whole population v. a small chance of getting sick. For example, there were 15K polio cases a YEAR in US in 1950s for 150M population. Currently, we have 80K hospital admissions per WEEK for just 2x higher population.

    Thus, given a high chance of exposure to the virus for anyone who is mixing up with the public, the chance of having a virus is at best 5x lower than 100% exposure to the vaccine. Then, as already mentioned, you ismply compare risk from wild or created virus v. risk from a vaccine that was made to help, and it is obvious that vaccine risk is less. It is like comparing risk of infection v. antibiotics., or bullet and surgery.

    #2007662
    ujm
    Participant

    P.S. I believe most people should get the vaccine. Since most people aren’t young and healthy or recovered from Covid.

    P.P.S. It is extremely rare for a recovered Covid patient to get a severe case of Covid. Having recovered from Covid is for all practical purposes virtually at least as good as having been vaccinated.

    #2007663
    ujm
    Participant

    P.P.P.S. The Biden Administration politicized the vaccination program by pushing it stronger than acceptable. By forcing recovered Covid patients and forcing children (!!!) to get the vaccine.

    Even 12 year olds aren’t young enough for Biden. He’s pressuring the FDA to approve the vaccine for little kids, whose risk is minimal. (And the vaccine itself contains risks, especially for kids.)

    #2007683
    2scents
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    ujm,

    “P.P.S. It is extremely rare for a recovered Covid patient to get a severe case of Covid. Having recovered from Covid is for all practical purposes virtually at least as good as having been vaccinated.”

    Not that rare, and I have seen reinfected patients that are not doing well, despite having had a bad case of Covid in the last.

    #2007695
    ujm
    Participant

    2scents: Any more prevalent than a vaccinated individual who became infected and isn’t doing well?

    #2007702
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    It’s not uncommon for vaccinated people to get Covid.

    Really? Do you know anyone who did?

    Booster shots have also been proven to further reduce illness in the vaccinated. Yet very few people got booster shots.

    In Eretz Yisroel it’s common. If the evidence holds up for its benefit, it will become common here.

    #2007705
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Common sense advice – lead healthy lifestyle after that and do an overall medical checkup.

    I have actually been doing that recently, but I doubt that’s what caused me to get Covid.

    #2007703
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Well maybe you got the Delta variant.
    The vaccines help with this variant – because it produces Antibodies that directly attack the Covid 19 Virus.to get Covid.

    I probably did get the Delta varient. Even though I got two doses of Moderna.

    #2007706
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    I am not sure why we are still debating pro- and against vaccines.

    Should we stop? Has everyone been convinced?

    #2007712
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    2scents: Any more prevalent than a vaccinated individual who became infected and isn’t doing well?

    There are apparently studies indicating both ways. Probably it’s very similar.

    #2007711
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    vaccine for little kids, whose risk is minimal. (And the vaccine itself contains risks, especially for kids.)

    The obvious question is which risk is higher, and if even, should we vaccinate kids to protect the elderly, especially since we know people can get it multiple times or after vaccination.

    #2007710
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    P.P.S. It is extremely rare for a recovered Covid patient to get a severe case of Covid.

    I personally know a bunch of people who got it twice. I probably got it it from such a person.

    #2007735
    ujm
    Participant

    “In Eretz Yisroel it’s common. If the evidence holds up for its benefit, it will become common here.”

    In the UK it’s common for recovered Covid patients to skip the vaccine. Because evidence demonstrates they don’t need it.

    #2007720
    yuda the maccabi
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    I’m not really part of the debate being that I know nothing about medicine i got vaccinated because my rabonim told me to
    I just wanted to say that I got covid after two phizer shots and I was pretty sick and so was my wife so I dont know where the info that people who were vaccinated dont feel covid is from, but it should be checked

    #2007757
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    i got vaccinated because my rabonim told me to

    Your rabbonim b”H hold you are supposed to follow mainstream medicine, not conspiracy theorists.

    I just wanted to say that I got covid after two phizer shots

    So did I, Moderna (which if anything is supposed to work better against Delta)

    and I was pretty sick and so was my wife so I dont know where the info that people who were vaccinated dont feel covid is from, but it should be checked

    Here’s the thing – they get the information from following many thousands of people, not just a few. So they have a lot better information than just you or I do based on what our personal experience will show us.

    Your rabbonim have basically said to trust what the vast majority of medical researchers and doctors have said, which is that vaccinating generally reduces the number of serious illnesses and deaths, even if there are many “breakthrough” positive cases.

    It’s impossible to know for sure in any individual case, but it’s very likely that had you or I not gotten vaccinated, we wouldn’t be here to be having this conversation.

    #2007756
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    In the UK it’s common for recovered Covid patients to skip the vaccine. Because evidence demonstrates they don’t need it.

    Define “don’t need”. Does it still lower the total risk?

    #2007761
    akuperma
    Participant

    If one read the “fine print” from the CDC and the manufacturers when they announce the vaccine, you would have known that they never claimed it would make you immune from Covid19, not would it prevent vaccinated people from spreading. They claimed only that it would the chance of a vaccinated individual becoming seriously ill (which combined with the fact the very few people who get Covid19 actually become seriously ill to begin with, would make a vaccinated individual would be very unlikely to become severely ill).

    The politicians, mass media (including social media), and people who “talking points” rather than long articles to read, ERRONEOUSLY assumed the vaccinated for Covid19 was like more familiar vaccine (total immunity including being unable to spread the disease).

    #2007763
    ujm
    Participant

    “Does it still lower the total risk?”

    For mild Covid, yes. For serious Covid there’s no evidence that it does (for recovered patients.)

    #2007786
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    @always_ask_questions That should be a pashut answer. If you say that getting the virus is 5 times less likely than getting the vaccine, then the vaccine should be dangerous to at least 5 times as many people as the virus.

    We know that it’s not true. The likelihood of someone getting dangerously ill from the vaccine (or passing on a dangerous illness to someone else) is at the worst most pessimistic estimates about a thousand times less likely than getting dangerously ill from COVID (or passing on COVID to someone who will get dangerously ill.

    So everyone get vaccinated! At the very worst, it’s 200 times safer than potentially getting COVID!

    #2007804
    ujm
    Participant

    What is the likelihood of an unvaccinated healthy person getting a severe case of Covid?

    #2007819
    Health
    Participant

    DY -“I probably did get the Delta varient. Even though I got two doses of Moderna.”

    So is this a contradiction to my post or you didn’t understand it or you agree with me?!?

    #2007821
    Health
    Participant

    UJM -“The Biden Administration politicized the vaccination program by pushing it stronger than acceptable. By forcing recovered Covid patients and forcing children (!!!) to get the vaccine.”

    Who Cares?!?
    That’s like Saying Castro did something to the Cuban people.
    We are Not a Free country anymore!
    Go listen to VP Pence on the way Biden & Co. are talking about the vaccines.

    #2007833
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    @ujm Right now? Pretty likely. Especially if they hadn’t had COVID in over a year and they are in a place with low vaccination rates and don’t socially distance.

    #2007959
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    So is this a contradiction to my post or you didn’t understand it or you agree with me?!?

    You can read it however you want, I have no objection.

    #2008013
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Especially if they hadn’t had COVID in over a year

    Compare serious illness and morbidity levels of those who never has Covid vs. those who had it but over a year ago, please. (Both unvaccinated)

    #2008131

    Remember that Phase 3 trials measured vaccine effectiveness v placebo – assuming same behavior. In real life, most people relax their behavior after taking a vaccine, like a good ice cream after a diet …

    And when you now have a mass of people who congregate together with the vaccine, then they used zechuyot from the vaccine to reduce distance between themselves rather than to be safer.

    Ironically, masks seem to lead to higher SD: people see masks and then behave accordingly. But when people see vaccinated people, they do not know vaccination status, leaading to lower SD.

    This is a good illustration of Jewish symbolism that reminds us of proper behavior – mezuzah, tzitzis, shtreimel … on the opposite side, this is like good/bad neighbor from pirkei avos – your risk depends on the neighbors.

    #2008136
    ujm
    Participant

    Yseribus: “@ujm Right now? Pretty likely. Especially if they hadn’t had COVID in over a year and they are in a place with low vaccination rates and don’t socially distance.”

    If it was “pretty likely” that all unvaccinated healthy people will get a severe case of Covid, then all of America’s Emergency Rooms should today be overfilled at 25 times their capacities.

    Obviously it is not pretty likely that a random unvaccinated person will get a severe case of Covid.

    #2008231
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    @ujm If someone hadn’t had COVID in a year, is unvaccinated, doesn’t socially distance, and lives in a place where many others are in similar situations, there’s something like a 30% chance they will get COVID over the next six months. That’s pretty likely. It doesn’t fill up the ERs because it’s not like all of them catch COVID at the same time.

    #2008236
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    It doesn’t fill up the ERs because it’s not like all of them catch COVID at the same time.

    Also because their cases are generally more mild.

    #2008237
    ujm
    Participant

    Yseribus: About 46% of Americans aren’t fully vaccinated. About 35% of Americans aren’t vaccinated at all. That’s well over a hundred million people. If they’re very likely to get severe Covid, you should have had 50,000,000 Americans hospitalized from Covid, using your 30% over 6 months figure. That isn’t even close to the case, even over time.

    #2008241
    ujm
    Participant

    “Also because their cases are generally more mild.”

    That’s, essentially, the point. I’ve been specifically referring to severe cases, which the vaccine is designed to minimize. Mild cases occur often even with the vaccine.

    #2008589

    can we do some research on our own here? can I ask people post what was the source and the path to the information they are posting? This well help us understand what our sources are and what biases and influences are. We always do it in Jewish discussion, and we know well differences between Amoraim and Tannaim, etc.

    For example, my recent claim ” masks seem to lead to higher SD” is from a research paper that I read in full, found it by a reference from a news site.

    #2008590
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    @ujm There’s about 20,000 hospitalizations daily in the US, of which 19,000 of which are unvaccinated. Over six months, that will be something like three million hospitalizations. Not the pessimistic numbers I quoted, but still unbelievably high.

    Please get vaccinated for your sake and for the sake of the people around you.

    #2008632
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    There’s about 20,000 hospitalizations daily in the US, of which 19,000 of which are unvaccinated

    How many already had Covid?

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