95% effective vaccine, what does that mean

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Originally Posted by Muchew [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think you're a bit misinformed about how this impacts young people. I'm 32 and previously would run half marathons, rock climb, and play ice hockey. I've been sick for 8 months and have had several moments where I wasn't sure if I would wake up the next morning. I can't walk to the end of the block and back without feeling like my heart is going to explode. While most young people don't die, the vast majority are not "recovered" and need serious medical support.

Originally Posted by Muchew [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Again, I think it is more widespread than you realize. I don't think anyone knows for sure what the numbers are, but there is a study from Italy following up on covid patients at 2 months post onset and only 13% of them were recovered. I've seen numbers anywhere between 10 and 90% are dealing with lingering symptoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXr14xmuGw

What I do know, is I belong to a support group of Covid "Long Haulers" that has over 15,000 members. Most of them are age 30-50. And this is just 1 of many support groups. These people are not getting better. The latest research suggests it is likely the virus persists in certain areas of the body; the immune system isn't able to clear it completely.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...11.18.388819v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...11.03.367391v1


But yeah, I agree it's a difficult situation. I would be more concerned about the economy though if we didn't waste trillions on trying to police the world. When that money could be spent on, I don't know, giving a universal income while we restrict businesses during a pandemic to benefit public health.

This is crazy shit, brother. Serious, very important question: have you received the COVID antibody therapy? Not vax, but antibody. This is the best option I would expect for knocking out resilient virus. Please let me know and more importantly, if you haven't had it, please work on getting it. Just go to the hospital and say "it's called, Regeneron". Looking forward to hearing back; your situation is very interesting.

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