The jab, now, is more about protecting yourself than your neighbors: Your likelihood of hospitalization / death is MUCH less if you’re fully vaccinated. And oh yeah: Even so, there are some persuasive signs that long haul Covid happens anyway, even with the “less deadly” Omicron variant. And this variant doesn’t seem to avoid children as much as the others. I haven’t seen anything persuasive about WHY that is.
Unvaccinated Seniors 49 Times More Likely to Require Hospitalization than Boosted Counterparts. And unvaccinated people between 50 and 64 years old were 44 times more likely to need hospitalization compared with their boosted counterparts.
Perhaps, but vaccines are still helping keep most people out of the hospital and from being intubated. It’s also still protecting from the other variants.
With research, the Omicron variant may allow the vaccine manufacturers to come up with a booster that will address Omicron and subsequent variants from being vaccine resistant.
All in all, the more people that are vaccinated will do more to battle variants, than doing nothing at all.
What I’ve read in the news has been fairly consistent since the discovery of the Omicron variant was first announced: The vaccines are less effective in preventing infection with Omicron, but their effectiveness is still greater than zero.
So it would be valid for this cartoon to show the “sheriff” as wounded, but not dead.
Valiant1943 Premium Member about 2 years ago
I don’t think so
PraiseofFolly about 2 years ago
But the legend was that / Like “el gato” the cat / Nine lives has “la Vacuna COVID.” [pertains to 1959 Western series through Disney]
Concretionist about 2 years ago
The jab, now, is more about protecting yourself than your neighbors: Your likelihood of hospitalization / death is MUCH less if you’re fully vaccinated. And oh yeah: Even so, there are some persuasive signs that long haul Covid happens anyway, even with the “less deadly” Omicron variant. And this variant doesn’t seem to avoid children as much as the others. I haven’t seen anything persuasive about WHY that is.
tabby about 2 years ago
Unvaccinated Seniors 49 Times More Likely to Require Hospitalization than Boosted Counterparts. And unvaccinated people between 50 and 64 years old were 44 times more likely to need hospitalization compared with their boosted counterparts.
https://www.newsandguts.com/cdc-unvaccinated-seniors-49-times-more-likely-to-require-hospitalization-than-boosted-counterparts/?fbclid=IwAR2G_IY9Yr1u-7DK0Y-gDaS2c0dsE7RbPssMYPiuLrE-ZKO-pOWZ-0HKfmA
A# 466 about 2 years ago
CDC advised today that boosters reduce the likelihood of required hospitalization due to omicron to about 1 in 10 (90% reduction) of total infections.
GiantShetlandPony about 2 years ago
Perhaps, but vaccines are still helping keep most people out of the hospital and from being intubated. It’s also still protecting from the other variants.
With research, the Omicron variant may allow the vaccine manufacturers to come up with a booster that will address Omicron and subsequent variants from being vaccine resistant.
All in all, the more people that are vaccinated will do more to battle variants, than doing nothing at all.
gammaguy about 2 years ago
What I’ve read in the news has been fairly consistent since the discovery of the Omicron variant was first announced: The vaccines are less effective in preventing infection with Omicron, but their effectiveness is still greater than zero.
So it would be valid for this cartoon to show the “sheriff” as wounded, but not dead.