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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Booster shots needed against Omicron, CDC studies show
By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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MarkX
But Bronco, Delta is still out there and affecting people! So if you are vaccinated with two shots you get protected that way. IF you get the booster, then you are protected against Omicron. But if you feel you have the strength to fight these various viruses without any vaccine, you go ahead. Just don't run to a doctor or hospital if you become infected. Ok!
Haaa Nemui
Lucky. I'll have to wait until April at least before I can get mine. Unless Japan brings it forward further.
Fuzzy
Reporting like this makes me mad. A paragraph like this leads people to believe that the two dose series offers "zero" protection at all from omicron. But that is not true. This study is looking at "symptomatic disease". It's not comparing the effects of 2 or 3 doses on hospitalization or deaths. The study says that people who have a booster were 67% less likely to develop symptoms compared to someone who had two doses. This is only talking about experiencing symptoms. And, it is a comparison to two doses. It does not say two doses does nothing!
Fuzzy
From another news source talking about the exact same study:
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Some interesting data from the UK on deaths from COVID-19 in people with no pre-existing conditions shows that, for England and Wales in 2020 (so before vaccines were available), there were:
9,432 total deaths
7,875 aged ≥65
1,557 aged ≤64
with the average age being 81
source: www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses
Mr Kipling
151E...
Obesity is the norm in the UK and not included as a "pre existing condition". There are also those who have but are unaware of their pre existing health problems.
Where did you get the average age being 81? It clearly isn't.