Better than I expected, tbh, but these aren’t very compelling conclusions. There are several major weaknesses in the study, and it’s only one among many that reached different conclusions. They acknowledge all of this and conclude that more study is needed. What i get from it is that there might be (may have been) some detriment to society from covid, and vaccines could possibly reduce that detriment slightly. With the benefit being pretty weak at this point in the trajectory of covid, it’s not surprising that the fda isn’t renewing the emergency use approval. It certainly doesn’t warrant the hand wringing from the guy I originally responded to.
Let’s not forget that we are using hospital resources for Covid patients which would otherwise be available or not required at all. There is a social cost there.
When people are sick with Covid, it affects their economic productivity. Not that we should really care, but sick workers make less money for the billionaires.
The journal is one peer reviewed source that shows there is congnitive decline that correlates strongly with the severity of a Covid infection. Reducing the number of infections, and reducing the severity (both things vaccines can do very well) reducing the collective cognitive impact to the population and the knock-on effects of those cognitive issues.
What are you basing that on? That’s a pretty strong statement…
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330
Better than I expected, tbh, but these aren’t very compelling conclusions. There are several major weaknesses in the study, and it’s only one among many that reached different conclusions. They acknowledge all of this and conclude that more study is needed. What i get from it is that there might be (may have been) some detriment to society from covid, and vaccines could possibly reduce that detriment slightly. With the benefit being pretty weak at this point in the trajectory of covid, it’s not surprising that the fda isn’t renewing the emergency use approval. It certainly doesn’t warrant the hand wringing from the guy I originally responded to.
They was just one example.
Let’s not forget that we are using hospital resources for Covid patients which would otherwise be available or not required at all. There is a social cost there.
When people are sick with Covid, it affects their economic productivity. Not that we should really care, but sick workers make less money for the billionaires.
The journal is one peer reviewed source that shows there is congnitive decline that correlates strongly with the severity of a Covid infection. Reducing the number of infections, and reducing the severity (both things vaccines can do very well) reducing the collective cognitive impact to the population and the knock-on effects of those cognitive issues.
This says long covid is bad. Nothing about vaccines.
I think you misinterperted both the question, and the answer.
Previous poster was asking for a source on how Covid can damage the population.
Source shows that Covid infections cause post infection cognitive decline with severity and duration that correlates to the length of infection.
They made a statement about covid populations without vaccine protection but the link made no distinction.
For completeness you are about 1/3 less likely to get long covid if you are vaccinated