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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
There are two sides to this. I say "what's the point of getting vaccinated if infected people have a 80-90% chance of having nothing more than mild symptoms" (source is listed in my previous post about this, but it's pretty common knowledge.) And if you're vaccinated and get infected, you have a 95% chance of having nothing more than mild symptoms. I'm not sure an unapproved vaccine is worth only about a 5% upgrade in one's chances of an uneventful outcome.
On the other hand, by all accounts, the vaccine will assure you of a 0% chance of hospitalization or death. So that's a considerable argument in favor of the vaccine.
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The rate of Covid hospitalization for someone my age is 266.3 per 100,000 or less than 3/10’s of 1%. Of those hospitalized, 87% were obese or overweight. I am neither. That improves my odds of not being hospitalized to less than 4/100’s of 1%. That doesn’t even take into account the fact that the average hospitalized Covid patient had 2.6 preexisting conditions.
Again I have none of the most common ones according to the CDC. So if I get the virus, the chances of me being hospitalized are almost statistically zero. And before you tell me about Covid long haulers, according to the CDC, they are almost exclusively from the high risk group. So I have opted not to take a vaccine with a new delivery system that no one knows with certainty if there will be any long term issues.