Here are the results of the poll.
Do You Plan To Accept A COVID19 Vaccine When It Is Available For You?
Yes 91% (73)
Unsure 5% (4)
No 4% (3)
I Have No Idea 0% (0)
Total votes: 80
It seems most are happy to accept a vaccination against COVID when their turn comes. It seems the audience voting here is a little more rational than the general community in terms of irrational anti-vax views!
Any insights on the poll welcome as a comment, as usual.
A good number of votes.
It must also have been a very easy question as only 0/80 readers were not sure how to respond.
Again, many, many thanks to all those who voted!
David.
Interesting attitude David. I am sure the government types refer to you as one of those crazy anti-myhr people! Given that people without significant metabolic dysfunction under 65 have a survival rate from the disease of 99.97%, we have no proven safe corona virus vaccines and no mRNA vaccines and the attempts at a SARS vaccine were aborted after ADE problems that killed many of the test animals on exposure to the disease after vaccination I would say that there are theoretical concerns. Whats the long term adverse event rate for the vaccine? Is it less than 0.03%? The 2009 "Pandemix" swine flu vaccine was pushed as safe but was withdrawn because of a high incidence of disabling narcolepsy.
ReplyDeleteI think people need to assess there own risk and weigh that up against the unknown risk of a vaccine. The term anti-vax is inappropriate, I am all for vaccines that are proven to be safe and effective. It appears you are hoping this one will be that, but no one knows. What about "First do no harm"
I mean we pushed out My Health Record at a cost of billions of dollars because the government thought it was a good idea, are they really competent??
Andrew, given we have seen 200M doses given and high safety with real benefits in the UK etc. I am happy I have an evidence base to suggest the vaccines are now worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteTo each his own!
David.
David, do you understand what ADE is? Perhaps a reference might help
ReplyDeletehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijcp.13795
The reaction is when you are infected with the virus down the track, which is what happened in SARS-COV1 vaccine development
Thanks Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI understand that Antibody-Dependant Enhancement (ADE) is a risk - thus far not seen even though cited in a 2020 paper as far as I can tell. With the number of doses that have been had, the time that has passed as the infection rates we would have seen it I reckon.
Time will tell.
Kindly just adopt a less combative tone or I will not publish your posts. I believe a large number of people smarter than you or I have decided to go ahead and on the basis of what we are seeing so far it seems OK! it might not be but we should hope!
Best.
David
Well you initial post was pretty combative, there is room for more than one opinion and lots of pretty smart people share my opinion, its just been cancelled, If ADE appears we could have one of the all time worst medical disasters on our hands, so the risks need to be declared and they are not! I can at least say I tried.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to table risks regardless of the probability. What is it you would advocate for Andrew as a mitigation/safeguard? Needed so people can assess the risk themselves.
ReplyDeleteThere has been no real hiding the fact that each day is a new day in understanding both the virus and the long-term immunity that any vaccine can provide.
The risks of the disease are heavily dependent on metabolic fitness, so get your Vitamin D checked, measure your waist/height ratio, and stop eating processed food, favor animal fat with Vitamin D in it, get some Sun. If your Vitamin D is low take a supplement. For patients I advocate for a Low Carb diet which includes all these elements. If you are metabolically fit then your risks are low and the vaccine should be a personal choice, with full disclosure of potential risks. The best comment I saw is the the population is being divided into 2 groups, Those who want to live and those who don't want to die.
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 Vaccines: Reassuring Safety Data
ReplyDeleteBy Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH
A CDC analysis of adverse event data during the first month of COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. offers reassurance on use of the two authorized mRNA vaccines. The findings appear in MMWR.
Between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 13, 2021, nearly 14,000,000 vaccine doses were given, and roughly 7000 adverse events were reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Of these, 91% were considered nonserious. Headache, fatigue, and dizziness were most common.
The overall rate of anaphylaxis was 4.5 per million doses — which, the researchers note, is "within the range" of rates seen with other common vaccines.
Overall, 113 deaths occurred after vaccination, most in residents of long-term-care facilities. The researchers report that "causes of death were consistent with background all-cause mortality and did not indicate any unexpected pattern that might suggest a causal relationship with vaccination."
Among Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients enrolled in the CDC's "v-safe" program — a smartphone-based tool that allows automated health check-ins after COVID-19 vaccination — reactions were more common after the second dose than after the first. (Information on second doses of the Moderna vaccine were not yet available.)
The researchers conclude, "These initial findings should provide reassurance to health care providers and to vaccine recipients and promote confidence in the safety of COVID-19 vaccines."
From Today's Physician's First Watch.
David