That is scary and the full extent won't be known for years. I imagine there are many under 40 who have had covid, but haven't had any reason for an echo or chest CTs. We might be surprised what we find among my own cohort in 15 years.
It will be hard to do that, but I am sure they will try.
I bet they are already counting future profits.
I'm kindof torn...I understand how the mRNA vaccine works (as much as an engineer who last took a bio class in college) can, and I don't really think there are issues with it. But...damn, just don't know.
I understand that, these decisions aren't taken lightly. Weighing the risks of the vaccine, the risk of covid complications, and the risk of catching covid in the first place to 2 lives is no easy task. With so many hospital staff member being vaccinated by now, surely some of the docs have reports of pregnant patients getting one or opting out. There might be resources at your offices or at least common questions they have answered. I did find this: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog...youre-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-2021010721722
My in-laws will be at Petco tomorrow morning getting theirs. They're close to 80 and have lung issues that would make Covid deadly for them. They're very excited.
Corrected typo: The US Military is now reviewing ways to screen AD who catch COVID. There is a significant risk for athletes to Sudden Cardiac Death for months after a COVID infection.
In NJ, vaccine eligibility had been expanded to Phase 1b ("individuals at risk"), which includes over 65 and folks with certain co-morbidities, including smoking (yeah, don't ask).
Good enough to fool the TSA, probably not . . . However, good enough to fool the "Greeter" at Walmart or restaurant employees, should be pretty easy.
I sure hope so, some Covid patients have ended up joining a world my Dad and I have ended up inhabiting.
Answer: We are in a pandemic and the virus is all around us. The vaccine protects against or lowers the risk of serious symptomatic infections and death 90% of the time. There is still a 10% risk of serious or symptomatic infection (I know that is oversimplified). It is not worth the risk to your family, friends, and coworkers to not further lower the risk. Relying solely on vaccines to curb the spread of COVID-19 is a fool’s errand.
Now that could work. Don't want our regular Mail carrier, he gets too many things in the wrong boxes.
Holee molee,
. I don't mind as I can hunker down at home without issue. Rather have my practicing colleagues get it first so they're safer.
Kurt,Holee molee,
Folks who for all intensive purposes were "normal" before acquiring Covid and now have CHF/impaired ejection fractions at a relatively young age? That is an un frick'en revelation. No, I'm not being derogatory.
I retired from practice July 1st and in a 30+ year career I had 3 patients who suffered from a severe viral pneumonia where the specialists in the very well qualified tertiary care center where I transferred them to couldn't quite pin down what virus took the patients down. They were on ventilators and took a heck of a long time to recover to even go home. All three were actually physically/mentally handicapped in some ways afterwards. I had a long term relationship with all these patients before they were ill.
I signed their disability papers and I have to state I ABSOLUTELY hate goldbricks, drones and people trying to take advantage of the system. (I've fired patients because of that.) These folks unfortunately had long term side effects of their illnesses and to this day I still don't know what they had. I know they HAD something really bad though. (Physician's intuition here mind you.)
This was years ago, way, way, way before this Covid thing so there is only one correlation I want to make here. A severe viral illness like Covid can maybe leave one with long term problems as I have seen with "BAD" viral pneumonic/pneunomia infections in the past unrelated to Covid.
This fact has hit the secular press so often, I cannot believe all these people are "faking it".
The bad thing though is if someone recovers from Covid-19 in an uncomplicated manner and tries to "game" the system. That is my fear I'm glad I won't have to face since I'm retired.
Oh since I'm retired, I'm off the priority list for the vaccine as I'm 64
People are doing well with distancing and masks so I have no fear about going out and shopping. (I'm widowed so have to do all the domestic chores now.)
Best regards,
A. Kurt Savegnago, M.D.
(I don't usually write M.D. after my name but that's what I did for a living for a long time.)
It is a live or atenuated virus and I would guess the protection will be 45-55%. Just a guess based on early data. I think ti based on Adenovirus.
The J&J vaccine is derived from work they did on an Ebola vaccine. It's a full DNA Adenovirus with modifications to make your cells produce corona spike proteins. Same goal as the Pfizer and Moderna, but I more stable than an mRNA strand. This make it shipable and storable at standard refrigerator temperatures. The two phase 3 trials going on now are testing a large population with a single dose and a double dose. Single dose with easier distribution would be a game changer. Fingers crossed.
I like this statement, but with my condition I need the maximum protection. With my lungs basically at 40% operating capacity, I'm dead if I get the virus.
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be 90% efficacious in interim results, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
