{COVID-19} Vaccination Injection Interjections VIII - Who cares at this point

[Vaspinne]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-...ring/100758964

Novak Djokovic has lost his second visa battle in a week after the Federal Court dismissed his appeal against Immigration Minister Alex Hawke's decision.

The Serbian will now be deported.

[archibaldcrane]

neat
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance...iac022/6507165

I have a hard time parsing this:

In multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression, both prior COVID-19 and vaccination were independently associated with significantly lower risk of COVID-19. Among previously infected subjects, a lower risk of COVID-19 overall was not demonstrated, but vaccination was associated with a significantly lower risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in both the pre-Omicron (HR 0.60, 95% CI 0.40–0.90) and Omicron (HR 0.36, 95% CI 0.23–0.57) phases.

[archibaldcrane]

Also it sucks that this monster study didn't also incorporate boosters in the data, as I'm sure a lot of the 52k people working in the Cleveland clinic received one.

[archibaldcrane]

Alberta demonstrating that boosters really do further reduce the rate of COVID-19 infection.

[archibaldcrane]

Hmm

[archibaldcrane]

And wow at this data on booster effectiveness vs hospitalization:

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/14...hOpyDqkUA&s=19

[NynJa]

All you have to do is get a new booster every 3 months.

[archibaldcrane]

All you have to do is get a new booster every 3 months.

Most vaccine courses are at least 3 shots

[kisada]

Most vaccine courses are at least 3 shots

so INCONVENIENT

but so is being sick and/or dead

[NynJa]

Most vaccine courses are at least 3 shots

1-most? Lol
2-Well were now on 4 for covid, how many more to go?

[Andalusian girls]

however many are needed why youse being a whingy bitch about it

And wow at this data on booster effectiveness vs hospitalization:

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/14...hOpyDqkUA&s=19

fewer hospitalizations for vacced 80+s than unvaccinated children, truly wild.

[NynJa]

Because i absolutely fucking hate needles. I lose 5 pounds in sweat every time I need to have blood drawn or an injection.

[Andalusian girls]

oh

i thought you were gonna be snarky not honest and vulnerable

i don't know how to deal with this

[Rhyis.]

Alberta demonstrating that boosters really do further reduce the rate of COVID-19 infection.

Canada (https://health-infobase.canada.ca/co...-19-cases.html):

728,415 (69.6%) were unvaccinated at the time of their episode date
43,754 (4.2%) were not yet protectedas their by the vaccine, as their episode date occurred less than 14 days after their first dose
54,772 (5.2%) were only partially vaccinated, as their episode date occurred either 14 days or more after their first dose or less than 14 days after their second dose
219,445 (21.0%) were fully vaccinated, as their episode date occurred 14 days or more after their second dose

... these stats also add up to 100% of the cases so it shows the full data lol

pre-omicron the fully vaccinated only made up about 5% of the total cases

[Andalusian girls]

here's a meme

[NynJa]

oh

i thought you were gonna be snarky not honest and vulnerable

i don't know how to deal with this

Even when im not trolling, i still disappoint

[Qalbert]

I don't have a problem with shots/pain, but if I find if it's a blood draw or longer procedure I have to distract myself, if I think too much about the idea of an object poking a hole and extracting my blood I get kinda weirded out. Something about it conceptually just lightly unnerves me.

[archibaldcrane]

Because i absolutely fucking hate needles. I lose 5 pounds in sweat every time I need to have blood drawn or an injection.

Lol

[Tymon]

I don't have a fear of needles but I developed some degree of a phobia of having blood drawn as an adult. I'm a "difficult stick" according to (in my opinion anyway) staff that sucks ass at drawing blood. They always fuck up at least 5 times and I nearly pass out from them constantly having to poke me over and over. Then I go to the actual lab and the tech there does it on the first try in 30 seconds.

Literally happens every single time. Happened when I was trying to get an antibody test at Walgreens too.

[kisada]

i hate drawing blood way more than the regular needle, for same reasons as everyone else. you're getting your life force extracted lmao.

can't imagine having to deal with techs who are bad at it