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@mcd2021 I am sorry to hear all you and your daughter have endured post covid vaccine. Unfortunately in order to receive the vaccine one gives consent knowing the vaccines are experimental. They were approved as a health emergency. Not enough time has been allowed for anyone to learn of the long term effects. Perhaps more studies are being conducted for the covid mRNA vaccines because the vaccines use a different methodology than all previous vaccines for the other illnesses. Vaccines with mRNA have not been used on humans until now. I hope your doctors will be able to find help for relieving your symptoms soon. We all have to decide what is best. I too believe in vaccinations but at the same time I am cautious regarding what goes into my body. I don’t want additional possible health issues down the road especially when the symptoms are new to the doctors. When I am convinced it is safe for me I will get vaccinated. As they say if the shoe fits, wear it. I am waiting to learn as more data becomes available. So far I have not been given good reasons when the long term effects are not known. Mind you, as of today, according to the John Hopkins University website for covid infections and mortality, here in the United States the death rate is 1.68% of all covid infections. Meaning out of one hundred people who contract covid infection 2 will die and 98 will survive.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Seems we have a choice to make according to our personal exposure risk. Do we risk the possible side effects of the covid infections or get the vaccination to risk possible side effects? It may be best to avoid covid infection all together if possible i.e. according to one’s own exposure risk. While the covid vaccines have shown to reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths they do not prevent hospitalizations and deaths amongst the vaccinated individuals as per the CDC website. Unfortunately, as another Mayo member pointed out, no vaccine is 100% effective. I wish you well in finding answers to help you soon. Hang in there!
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Many thanks for your well wishes. I completely understand your decision to wait until you feel it is safe to be vaccinated. I felt much the same way even though I was eligible to get vaccinated much earlier than I finally did. I was waiting to hear about any potential side effects besides the sore arm and flu-like symptoms we were told to expect. All I was told and all I read was that it was safe and I should just do it. Unfortunately my body couldn't handle it and from what I've read on this message board and elsewhere plus what I've heard from my doctor, I'm far from alone. But you don't hear about a lot of these serious side effects on the news. That's unfortunate because people need to be aware of all the risks in order to make a truly informed decision that they are comfortable with. Wishing you well and all the very best in deciding what is right for you.
Hello. As a person who was diagnosed with neuropathy in 2015 and then tinnitus in 2017 and who in March 2020 tested positive for Covid 19 with ACTUAL symptoms of high fever, cough and horrific gastritis, I think it is misleading to suggest to mcd2021 that her symptoms may be the result of an undiagnosed Covid infection to undermine that there is a connection/link to the Covid VACCINE that has her health so severely compromised and QUALITY of life "diminished", to say the least. I repeat and quote her statement again, " I am NOT ANTI-VAX". In conclusion, dismissing any person( which is virtually what that is) who knows their health was fine BEFORE they VOLUNTARILY took vaccine is unfortunate to say it delicately.
Please be careful to be kind.🙏🏾
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"here in the United States the death rate is 1.68% of all covid infections. Meaning out of one hundred people who contract covid infection 2 will die and 98 will survive."
That's not correct. Confirmed cases are not total infections. The initial JAMA report pegged mortality at 5 per thousand, severity at 5 per 100. 8 out 10 are subclinical. That's probably about right. The insidiousness of covid is how infectious it is, not how lethal it is.