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About "long-term side effects"[0]: "For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue,
by hezag 6y ago
About "long-term side effects"[0]:
"For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.
Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty."
0. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54296223 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54296223
- antibuddy 6y agoWhat's your point?
- otachack 6y agoThink the point is you either roll the dice with COVID or roll the dice with a vaccine. We have evidence of long-term COVID effects while with any of the vaccines not enough time has passed.
- antibuddy 6y agoYou are always rolling the dice when you get a cold. The important part is how likely the side effects really are and this is proven for neither. In addition to this, vaccine side effects can be way more severe than that especially for otherwise healthy people. Given the lethality is <0.1% for people under 60 and sterile immunity (with the vaccine) is neither proven nor targeted, there doesn't seem to be a hurry to get the vaccine really.
- maxerickson 6y agoWhy are you all over this thread fear mongering about sterilizing immunity? The vaccine trials indeed did not collect data about it, but the starting assumption (based on the mechanism of action of the vaccines) is that they are likely to result in sterilizing immunity. They may not! But the lack of data doesn't mean we should expect there to not be sterilizing immunity.