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Life's a Hillary
We are seeing about the opposite here, it’s in an area with a lower vaccination rate than others though and we get lots of patients from rural areas that are very low and don’t think it’s something that can affect them. Statistics class tells us that if we have a highly vaccinated population it’s not a surprise if more vaccinated people are the ones being infected. Doesn’t mean the vaccine isn’t working, you need more data to get the full picture and see how many cases it is preventing. Most of the vaccinated patients being seen for covid are old, immunocompromised, or a number of commorbidities, often more than one of those attributes. A number of vaccinated patients test positive but are there for unrelated procedures, it’s good that they are not having a bad go with covid but it causes extra precautions to be taken at the same time.
All I really care about is preventing strain on our hospitals and deaths. Cases don’t bother me as long as it’s not something that causes serious damage. For example, an unvaccinated 30 year old, skinny guy, without any health issues was admitted for around 10 days and has been home for weeks now. He still can’t walk to the bathroom from his bed without needing oxygen. His lungs are pretty wrecked and I wouldn’t be surprised if this causes him long term damage. That’s the scary thing to me that’s not seen in the media/by the general population as much as the deaths and people in the ICU. The number of young and “healthy” unvaccinated people being admitted for covid is MUCH higher than it was previously, delta has changed the game for sure.
Like I’ve seen ABNAK say, if covid has a bullet with your name on it then you’re in trouble and you’re essentially playing Russian roulette. Getting vaccinated can dramatically lower the number of rounds in the chamber though. It’s up to each individual to make that choice but if anyone has studied basic statistics you can see the probability of a bad outcome from the vaccine is immensely lower than a bad outcome from a positive covid diagnosis with all else held constant. With the obvious disclaimer if you have legitimate health issues preventing you from being vaccinated.