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Yeah, it's a pretty deadly disease. Vaccines work by preparing your body to fight a disease more easily if you get it. They don't physically prevent you from g
by geofft 5y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty deadly disease.
Vaccines work by preparing your body to fight a disease more easily if you get it. They don't physically prevent you from getting it in the first place (that's the effect of physical barriers - distance, masks, etc. - as well as a secondary effect of other people being vaccinated and having reduced viral loads and coughing less). Your body still has to fight off the infection with its antibodies, and the infection is still going through your system.
Healthy people in their 20s and 30s with breakthrough infections tend to report that they get a mild fever and maybe need to take a couple days off from work - which is a lot better than going to the hospital and getting on a ventilator because your body has no idea what to do. A fever is part of the body's immune response.
When you're 84 years old and you previously had multiple myeloma, which affects your white blood cells, this process may not work as well and the resulting "mild" fever can seriously weaken you. So can many other things that the much younger can brush off; they usually get lumped under "natural causes."
- nradov 5y agoI encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but even without vaccination only a tiny fraction of cases among healthy people in their 20s and 30s get on ventilators. The CDC estimated the hospitalization rate in the 18-49 age group at 2.5%. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... The majority of those hospitalized cases aren't really "healthy". Most suffer from serious co-morbid conditions such as obesity or diabetes. https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-children-in-covid-icus-are-overweight-but-public-health-officials-rarely-talk-about-obesity https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut... And only a small fraction of hospitalized cases are treated with mechanical ventilation. It's considered a salvage treatment when all other treatments have failed. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/nhcs/intubation-ventilator-use.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/nhcs/intubation-ventilator-...