Everyone will get infected, unless they can find a conventionally effective vaccine for it.
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You cannot vaccinate against a corona virus. They say they can do it but it's more about the money.
All I’m gonna say is, read diverse viewpoints, study the core science, review wide-ranging (necessarily large) studies, and then do what’s right for you 🫡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-vaccine…I’m just being clear as a physician that everyone will get infected because there is no way to prevent this (well, other than dying of something else in the near future).
I’m guessing most people have been infected already…this can be formally studied using sero-surveys but there seems to be little interest in estimating the size of the population most at risk.
It’s very interesting how quickly the widespread interest in tracking strains etc., has dwindled.
Remains to be seen how widespread it gets over the next few months but it definitely seems to evade existing immunity.
There’s a thoughtful/nuanced newsletter from a no-bullshit epidemiologist I used to read; pretty sure she still publishes. Happy to dig it up if you’re interested 🤙
Love to see it. People forget HCOV-NL63. It is a human coronavirus that binds to the ACE2 receptor identified in 2004…at first t seemed like a new disease was in an outbreak, but eventually it was recognized it had been with humanity for thousands of years. Causes a common childhood cold. This is the eventual fate of sars-cov-2.
I don’t even remember that one, lol. And certainly hope that’s the same direction Covid lands. I’m damn tired of even thinking about it.
Anyway, at the time this was a simple email newsletter, sounds like she built it out a bit more.
Pretty balanced take on things and she does a good job incorporating studies and citations
Not a single randomized control study to be found that indicates they are effective or safe. Observational studies have not accounted for confounding factors and this is intentionally obfuscated to create the impression of safety and effectiveness. The industry is fully corrupted.
That’s a pretty sweeping statement, but in any case, I’m not sure anything approved by the FDA is 100% effective or safe. Fluoride is added to public drinking water, which is very healthy for almost every human… except for the teeny tiny percentage of people who are deathly allergic to it. But it’s a game of trade offs.
Always a game of trade offs. The real problem is the harm benefit analysis that should be ongoing isn’t currently happening. Independent analysis of the summary data released to the public suggests harm > benefit over all; but the withheld patient specific data isn’t available for further evaluation.
Very well-articulated, thanks brotha
I heard that there is as much chance of that happening as there is for finding one against the common cold (very little).
I’m not so certain…getting rid of every and any common cold virus may be impossible, but creating a vaccine for this one very slowly mutating virus is not out of the realm of possibility. It’ll just take a lot of work and it might not be worth it.