Vaccine Development Summary
12-11-2020, 09:14 AM
#621
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the virus affects everyone differently. Here’s the latest CDC data showing that COVID is more fatal than the flu somewhere in the 15-24 age group by a factor of 9:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c....htm#AgeAndSex
Nobody knows why COVID affects people differently, but it does. Just because a bee sting is no big deal for you doesn’t mean it won’t kill someone else whose a trained cage fighter and until we can figure out how to identify the mechanism that makes it so deadly, getting the virus is Russian roullette. I’m not targetting you specifically, just bringing a different perspective.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c....htm#AgeAndSex
Nobody knows why COVID affects people differently, but it does. Just because a bee sting is no big deal for you doesn’t mean it won’t kill someone else whose a trained cage fighter and until we can figure out how to identify the mechanism that makes it so deadly, getting the virus is Russian roullette. I’m not targetting you specifically, just bringing a different perspective.
12-11-2020, 10:11 AM
#622
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Some information on why some people die while others don't.
How COVID Kills Some People But Not Others - I'm a Lung Doctor (MEDICAL TRUTH) | Coronavirus - YouTube
How COVID Kills Some People But Not Others - I'm a Lung Doctor (MEDICAL TRUTH) | Coronavirus - YouTube
Some key genetic risk factors have just been identified. This opens the prospect for targeted treatments for severe covid, as well as testing to further segregate risk in the population.
https://www.reuters.com/article/heal...-idUSKBN28L256
12-11-2020, 12:55 PM
#625
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Several possible reasons I can think of...
1) It's very rare, and was a fluke that it turned up right away. Don't know how many people the UK vaccinated before that poped up, might have many thousands, maybe even larger than the trial group.
2) The trial participants were selected in such a way that they weren't perfectly representative of the general population. Might have been done for safety, or possibly in the course of trying for specific data (example, selecting demographics at risk for severe covid). This is normal, and one of the reasons they monitor pharma after deployment (phase 4).
3) Remotely possible, but pretty unlikely, that they got a bad batch of vaccine.
1) It's very rare, and was a fluke that it turned up right away. Don't know how many people the UK vaccinated before that poped up, might have many thousands, maybe even larger than the trial group.
2) The trial participants were selected in such a way that they weren't perfectly representative of the general population. Might have been done for safety, or possibly in the course of trying for specific data (example, selecting demographics at risk for severe covid). This is normal, and one of the reasons they monitor pharma after deployment (phase 4).
3) Remotely possible, but pretty unlikely, that they got a bad batch of vaccine.
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12-11-2020, 01:09 PM
#626
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Maybe we do know why now.
Some key genetic risk factors have just been identified. This opens the prospect for targeted treatments for severe covid, as well as testing to further segregate risk in the population.
https://www.reuters.com/article/heal...-idUSKBN28L256
Some key genetic risk factors have just been identified. This opens the prospect for targeted treatments for severe covid, as well as testing to further segregate risk in the population.
https://www.reuters.com/article/heal...-idUSKBN28L256
I have a couple healthy younger friends that got diagnosed with what is likely terminal cancer this year. I believe every disease and illness has its idiopathic outliers. Live life like today may be your last.
As far as COVID, discussing the known risk factors seems to make people “uncomfortable”.
12-12-2020, 07:49 AM
#628
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12-12-2020, 08:26 AM
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FAA approves pilots and controllers to take Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with 48hr waiting period between injection and duty.
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=96258
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=96258
12-12-2020, 09:05 AM
#630
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