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That was listed under "The million dollar questions include" I'm now realizing formatting / phrasing was unclear. 1. >10% of mild / asymptomatic cases have br

That was listed under "The million dollar questions include" I'm now realizing formatting / phrasing was unclear. 1. >10% of mild / asymptomatic cases have brain damage. 2. The million dollar question is whether this includes vaccinated cases. Vaccines reduce hospitalizations and deaths by far more than they do mild and asymptomatic cases.

eloff 5y ago
Ah, now I see what you mean. That is worrying. I hope that the rate of mild cases in vaccinated people is lower than the article would lead one to believe. I also hope the protection given is enough to avoid that kind of brain damage.
- gibba999 5y ago
  I hope so too. Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50. My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here): - The vaccine doesn't provide sterilizing immunity -- you catch mild COVID, and then your body fights it off quickly. - It does well for stopping original COVID fast, but newer mutations get pretty far before the vaccine stops them. - The olfactory symptoms are neurological, and the phase when brain damage happens. We'll see in a few months.
  - eloff 5y ago
    All I can say is I hope you're wrong on some of those points. It's inevitable that myself and my family will be exposed to covid19 at some point in the future. I think the same is true for most of us.
    - gibba999 5y ago
      All I can say is that humanity, outside of Asia, has consistently had "all I can say" responses. It's a preventable slow-motion train wreck. I could be wrong, but there's no reason to believe delta and gamma are the last mutations we'll see. COVID was astronomically cheaper to exterminate pre-mutation, and astronomically cheaper before it spread. At each point, people wished things weren't that bad, only they turned out to be worse.

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That was listed under "The million dollar questions include" I'm now realizing formatting / phrasing was unclear. 1. >10% of mild / asymptomatic cases have br

by gibba999 5y ago

eloff 5y ago
Ah, now I see what you mean. That is worrying. I hope that the rate of mild cases in vaccinated people is lower than the article would lead one to believe. I also hope the protection given is enough to avoid that kind of brain damage.
- gibba999 5y ago
  I hope so too. Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50. My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here): - The vaccine doesn't provide sterilizing immunity -- you catch mild COVID, and then your body fights it off quickly. - It does well for stopping original COVID fast, but newer mutations get pretty far before the vaccine stops them. - The olfactory symptoms are neurological, and the phase when brain damage happens. We'll see in a few months.
  - eloff 5y ago
    All I can say is I hope you're wrong on some of those points. It's inevitable that myself and my family will be exposed to covid19 at some point in the future. I think the same is true for most of us.
    - gibba999 5y ago
      All I can say is that humanity, outside of Asia, has consistently had "all I can say" responses. It's a preventable slow-motion train wreck. I could be wrong, but there's no reason to believe delta and gamma are the last mutations we'll see. COVID was astronomically cheaper to exterminate pre-mutation, and astronomically cheaper before it spread. At each point, people wished things weren't that bad, only they turned out to be worse.