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But that's also a side effect for the majority of people who contract COVID, no?
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
But that's also a side effect for the majority of people who contract COVID, no?
- gregoryl 5y agoDisingenuous argument, no? Less people will die from the vaccines, by a very large margin.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNo. The disingenuous argument is calling not dying a "side effect from the vaccine".
- gregoryl 5y agoI'm confused as to what you are arguing. The concept is just an application of statistics. Less people will die from the broad application of the vaccine vs. not, so we choose to vaccinate.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoOPs argument heavily suggested the only way to not die of COVID was to get the vaccine. Which is demonstrably false.
- syntaxing 5y agoIf you mean 50%+ as majority then yes. But a nonvaccinated death rate around 2-10% worldwide compared to 0.1% of the US vaccinated population getting covid to begin with, that’s a huge difference.
- kzrdude 5y agoThe case fatality rate has been quoted to be much lower than that - 2% in bad cases (health care system failure) and 0.5% in more well managed situations.
- syntaxing 5y agoWould love to see the numbers of 0.5%. Even in the US and with vaccines rolled out, we just skimmed 2% [1] [1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
- kzrdude 5y agoHm yeah ok, we should not look at case fatality rate when the true number of cases is so uncertain. I think it's more about what the actual risk of death is if you get covid, which is lower than this case fatality rate.