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Nov. 26th, 2021|02:10 pm |
I have no opinion (yet) on forcing/pressuring. It's sometimes ok to have no strong opinions. I also have not studied data enough on this and I'm not a policy maker, I don't envy people who are :)
Abstract you cited did not change my opinion. There already are studies on the topic (reading actual studies is hard, and not that interesting, that's why bad takes on them in conspiralogy sites are so popular, I think): https://www.encepp.eu/encepp/openAttachment/documents.otherDocument-1/43974
with summary that getting covid is vorse in terms of venose thrombosis (VTE) than getting vaccine while risk for myocardial infarction or ischemic stroke does not significantly increase (again, of course, study is limited on things it actually measures and can't predict what will happen in 5 years).
"We observed a potential albeit small increase in the number of VTEs seen after a first-dose of BNT162b2 in both Spanish and UK data, with 46 “excess” events expected in >900,000 people vaccinated in Spain, and 42 in 1.65 million people vaccinated in the UK. The equivalent figures amounted to 437 excess cases in 220,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Spain, and to 566 excess events in 300,000 participants tested positive against SARS-Cov-2 in the UK. ".
That said, my kids (16 and 20) are vaccinated. In my opinion currently known risks (incl. higher chance of long-covid *) vs vaccination side-efects is clearly in favor of taking vaccine. And I may change my mind in the future when there will be supporting data.
* Known as today. There's still open discussion/problem/data how strong vaccines protects from long covid https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2 |
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