the anti vaxxers are hysterical: they exaggerate the problem by cherry picking problems and not putting it into context. I mean, some of them are hysterical about vaccines that have been around since the 1920s...
Even the hysteria about "the vaccine" ignores that the Sinovax used an old technique that has been around for 100 years, the AstraZenca used adenovirus, which has been around for 30 years and is similar to the ebola vaccine that essentially stopped these epidemics in recent years (an under reported epidemic). Only the mRNA vaccines are experimental: and if the suspicion was about those vaccines, then fine. But even then, the risk benefit analysis for elders showed they worked.
the Anti Vaxers seem to hate all vaccines, and I suspect it is because they never saw any of these diseases. I saw measles when I was a medical student, and whooping cough cases popped up now and then when I was in practice... My husband saw small pox but I never saw it. And I have seen polio, typhoid, cholera and tetanus when I worked in Africa. But the real killers are simple pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea, for which there are no good vaccines.
So why are the anti vaxers so influential? Because of all the lies.
it didn't come out of the Wuhan lab: it just happened to come out of a meat market.
Trump stopped people coming in from China because he was a bigot: The WHO said it did not spread person to person. So go out and party for Chinese new year to show you are not a Maga bigot.
Don't visit grandmom, but it's okay to place people still infectious with Covid back into nursing homes because if PPE is used correctly by the well trained (/LOL) staff it won't spread (just ignore the increase in death).
Don't attend church for two years, but strip bars are okay to go to.
mostly peaceful riots by the left don't spread the disease.
Etc etc etc.
And of course a complete denial that there are side effects, when in medicine we know everything (even placebos) have side effects: We go by the cost benefit ratio. So give shots to grandmom but kids? Why the push to give them shots?
Now we see people denying that covid exists. Sheesh. In our town, we lost several businessmen and a pregnant lady (another pregnant lady survived but her child died) from covid. Joy's brother almost Died of it. That is just among our business circle, not counting the elders who died (especially if they died at home). I wonder if those middle aged folks we heard aboout who had died of heart attacks and had pneumonia had covid but the test was faulty. Who know. And of course, older people were afraid to go to the hospital and died at home and never were tested.
Dr. C puts it into context:
Reporting rate for serious adverse events 0.2 reports per 1,000 doses of vaccine (0.02%) (one per 5,000 doses of vaccine)
Full report here.
Dr. C wonders if the epidemic will get another surge.
I guess things are getting better in England, because his plush puppy in the window in the back ground of his videos no longer wears a mask.
