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Dukasaur wrote:I remember way back in your anti-vax crusade, you said your main objections were to the experimental RNA vaccines, and you would consider taking the Novavax with its more traditional approach if it came to market. Well, now that Novavax is on the market, are you taking it?

Why or why not?

from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before."

More specifically, the researchers say, their adjusted analysis found that "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters" after vaccine eligibility was opened.

In late 2021, an NPR analysis found that after May of that year — a timeframe that overlaps the vaccine availability cited in the new study — people in counties that voted strongly for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election were "nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19" as people in pro-Biden counties.

saxitoxin wrote:a minor cough for two days

GaryDenton wrote:I applaud your independent spirit and dying for your beliefs.

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bigtoughralf wrote:Hey saxi, I've got a serious question for you:

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Lonous wrote:1 year of deaths, month by month, vaccinated vs unvaxxed.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/S5Fy1/13/

Lonous wrote:1 year of deaths, month by month, vaccinated vs unvaxxed.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/S5Fy1/13/

During the early rollout of vaccines, vaccinated people represented a small share of total deaths, but experts warned that the share would likely rise simply because vaccinated people were representing a growing share of the population. In other words, if 100% of people in the U.S. were vaccinated, vaccinated people would represent 100% of COVID-19 deaths. Similarly, as the share of the population with a booster rose somewhat during 2022, the share of deaths among boosted people also rose. COVID-19 vaccines are very effective at preventing severe illness and death, but they are not perfect, so deaths among vaccinated people will still occur.

Indeed, vaccinated people now make up the majority of the population – 79% of adults have completed at least the primary series – and the latest CDC data show that vaccinated people also now represent the majority of COVID-19 deaths. There are many more vaccinated people than there are unvaccinated people, and vaccinated and boosted people are, on average, older and more likely to have underlying health conditions that put them at risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. That’s why, when CDC adjusts for some of these factors (age and population size), we still see that unvaccinated people are at much greater risk of death and other severe outcomes than people the same age who have stayed up-to-date on boosters. Older people are at greater risk for severe illness and death from COVID-19 than younger people, but vaccines and boosters still lower that risk substantially.

Patients vaccinated for COVID-19 had reduced mortality, especially for obese/severely obese and older individuals. Vaccination’s protective effect against mortality declined over time and hospitalized obese and older individuals may derive especially great benefit from prior vaccination against SARS-CoV-2.

The covariate-adjusted mortality rates were 5.1% and 8.3% for vaccinated and unvaccinated patients hospitalized with COVID-19, respectively, in the whole analysis sample.

In sum, analyses of a large, diverse sample of over 80,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized from January 1, 2021, to January 31, 2022, in 21 US health systems demonstrated about a 40% decline in in-hospital mortality among all patients who had received any vaccination as compared with unvaccinated patients. Vaccination reduced the likelihood of mortality by more than half among patients who had three vaccine doses and who were not immune compromised or suppressed. Vaccination was associated with especially large reductions in mortality in obese, severely obese, and older patients, encouraging additional efforts to increase vaccination rates in such patient groups.

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bigtoughralf wrote:Hey saxi, I've got a serious question for you:

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