To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question.

@silverwoman I am also very concerned about this issue and have done an extensive research on pros and cons. Besides some hesitation based on the failures I have heard about having to do with mRNA type drugs I am concerned as to the rush to a vaccine that some have stated skipped normal protocols that other vaccines are subject to. The area that really has me thinking is they call this an emergency authorization and I have see reports on another drug that has been in use for many years and some doctors are having great success with but they are trying to get the powers to be to look at there findings and get the recommendation started as to there effectiveness.
The drug I'm talking about is Ivermectim and a doctor just recently testified in the Senate about it. Here is the link but it concerns me they are pushing this mRNA vaccine when there could be other options out there. I'm starting to think it's about money. The pharmaceuticals spent a lot of money and now I'm concernerd they won't look at other options.
https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w
So I'm personally can wait for more data since I have been doing fine with the basics, Masks, hand washing and distance. Believe it or not it's time tested back to Bibical times as to how to handle pandemics.
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

@silverwoman I am also very concerned about this issue and have done an extensive research on pros and cons. Besides some hesitation based on the failures I have heard about having to do with mRNA type drugs I am concerned as to the rush to a vaccine that some have stated skipped normal protocols that other vaccines are subject to. The area that really has me thinking is they call this an emergency authorization and I have see reports on another drug that has been in use for many years and some doctors are having great success with but they are trying to get the powers to be to look at there findings and get the recommendation started as to there effectiveness.
The drug I'm talking about is Ivermectim and a doctor just recently testified in the Senate about it. Here is the link but it concerns me they are pushing this mRNA vaccine when there could be other options out there. I'm starting to think it's about money. The pharmaceuticals spent a lot of money and now I'm concernerd they won't look at other options.
https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w
So I'm personally can wait for more data since I have been doing fine with the basics, Masks, hand washing and distance. Believe it or not it's time tested back to Bibical times as to how to handle pandemics.
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

@silverwoman I am also very concerned about this issue and have done an extensive research on pros and cons. Besides some hesitation based on the failures I have heard about having to do with mRNA type drugs I am concerned as to the rush to a vaccine that some have stated skipped normal protocols that other vaccines are subject to. The area that really has me thinking is they call this an emergency authorization and I have see reports on another drug that has been in use for many years and some doctors are having great success with but they are trying to get the powers to be to look at there findings and get the recommendation started as to there effectiveness.
The drug I'm talking about is Ivermectim and a doctor just recently testified in the Senate about it. Here is the link but it concerns me they are pushing this mRNA vaccine when there could be other options out there. I'm starting to think it's about money. The pharmaceuticals spent a lot of money and now I'm concernerd they won't look at other options.
https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w
So I'm personally can wait for more data since I have been doing fine with the basics, Masks, hand washing and distance. Believe it or not it's time tested back to Bibical times as to how to handle pandemics.
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

Dana, Did you talk to your transplant doctors about Ivermectin? I would be very interested in what they have to say about this? Have you asked to be prescribed this med?
Thanks, Ellen

I messaged my care team today. The response looked like standard recommendations saying that they recommend transplant patients to get the vaccine if you haven’t shown signs of rejection recently.

@cmael What hospital is your transplant team at? I am wondering because I have heard nothing yet from my hospital, Mass General, and I really want to get this vaccine. As I have heard many transplant teams have said, the side effects of the virus will be much less serious than the potential side-effects of the vaccine.

Seriously, look at how many people have died from COVID already. It's on the rise everywhere in this country, and I read that in CA it's so bad that ambulance companies have been told that patients who they believe have little chance of survival should not be brought to the hospital! So, the ambulance personnel are making that life or death decision? That just does not seem right to me.

To paraphrase the older gentleman in England who got the vaccine, "I've come this far, I don't want to die from Covid", and it is rampant everywhere now due to people not respecting the no-travel advice over the holidays.
JK

@contentandwell, I have a thought (okay, a question). Have you contacted your transplant team? Why wait to hear from them?