No they are not. Israel reported Pfizer being 63% 2 weeks ago against delta and it's down to 39%. And down to 91% against severe infection/death.
Oh and the delta variant was traced back to a women who was fully vaccinated bringing it into Israel via flying in from out of the country.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/del...ective-in-israel-prevents-severe-illness.html
No they are not. Israel reported Pfizer being 63% 2 weeks ago against delta and it's down to 39%. And down to 91% against severe infection/death.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/del...ective-in-israel-prevents-severe-illness.html
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is just 39% effective in Israel where the delta variant is the dominant strain, but still provides strong protection against severe illness and hospitalization, according to a new report from the country’s Health Ministry.
The efficacy figure, which is based on an unspecified number of people between June 20 and July 17, is down from an earlier estimate of 64% two weeks ago and conflicts with data out of the U.K. that found the shot was 88% effective against symptomatic disease caused by the variant.
However, the two-dose vaccine still works very well in preventing people from getting seriously sick, demonstrating 88% effectiveness against hospitalization and 91% effectiveness against severe illness, according to the Israeli data published Thursday.
There's plenty of people and doctors that have chosen not to get these vaccines based off scientific rationale.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today released a new survey (PDF) among practicing physicians that shows more than 96 percent of surveyed U.S. physicians have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, with no significant difference in vaccination rates across regions. Of the physicians who are not yet vaccinated, an additional 45 percent do plan to get vaccinated.
“Physicians and clinicians are uniquely positioned to listen to and validate patient concerns, and one of the most powerful anecdotes a physician can offer is that they themselves have been vaccinated. You can take it from your doctor: the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Not according to this survey:
AMA survey shows over 96% of doctors fully vaccinated against COVID-19 | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org)
So, 96% are already fully vaccinated and about half of the remaining plan to soon. That's 98% vaccinated. So, I guess there are "plenty" that don't, if by plenty you mean about 2% of the medical professionals (and they may have medical reasons not to do so and not an aversion to the vaccine itself, just like we have discussed).
Yeah, these doctors are SUPER concerned about side effects. To the point that 98% of doctors in the US have been or will shortly be fully vaccinated.
Did anyone take the vaccine because they "love the idea"?
I took the vaccine because I work at a university hospital and it will increase the likelihood of a positive outcome for me if I am exposed. Fin.
Odds are those are also the type of medical professionals that are anti vaccine and think COVID is a hoax. The majority recommend getting vaccinated yet the anti vaxxers find the very few that dont and blast it all over social media so it looks like they have some sort of credibility, just like the majority of doctors are legit, but junkies are able to find 1 or 2 in their town that will write illegitimate prescriptions to feed their opiod addiction.Medical professionals have also been getting people addicted to opiate pain killers for decades so excuse some of us for not just blindly trusting everything that they say. Also excuse us for not blindly trusting the CDC, WHO or Fauci who have lied to us and flipped flopped on policy more times than you can imagine.
When a long term study is able to be done, I'll get the vaccine. Until then, I see no reason to and I see no reason why anyone in sports should either unless they fully trust it. If you're at risk, get the shot and be happy you've protected yourself. The people who don't trust what's going on right now aren't necessarily just believing everything some random social media reports say, despite what your favorite media outlet tries to lead you to believe. Being forced to take medicine through coercion is pretty alarming for many of us and makes you question why would they need to coerce people if it was such a no brainer as you guys tend to believe.
Unless one's primary care physician advises against receiving the vaccine because of existing health considerations, the available data makes it clear that there are simply no good reasons not to get it, and a great many excellent reasons to do so.
The issue is that most "anti-vaxxers" or "vaccine hesitant" individuals are relying on misinformation they've encountered online or on television, or have plucked a singular data point from out of context to justify a position they had already staked out long before the possibility of mass vaccination for COVID-19 had arrived.
Rather than believing everything you see on the internet or on television, consult instead with your doctor, the overwhelming majority of whom (being, ya know, medical professionals) are going to recommend getting the vaccine. That said, if you're pregnant or have a preexisting condition that causes you to hesitate, then get a second expert opinion. But don't chase down every sensationalized, bias-affirming piece of "information" you encounter on f***ing Facebook.
Odds are those are also the type of medical professionals that are anti vaccine and think COVID is a hoax. The majority recommend getting vaccinated yet the anti vaxxers find the very few that dont and blast it all over social media so it looks like they have some sort of credibility, just like the majority of doctors are legit, but junkies are able to find 1 or 2 in their town that will write illegitimate prescriptions to feed their opiod addiction.
Not true. There are several reasons why the risk/benefit may not make sense for someone. And there are many experts, some among the most published doctors in the world that would agree with that sentiment.
That's cool, there's also people that are choosing not to get the vaccine for reasons that have nothing to do with misinformation or plucking some data point out of context. And experts that would support that decision.
Over 250,000 people die to medical errors every year. It's the 3rd leading cause of death. Doctors aren't perfect.
1. The bolded part actually proves my point when you look at what I was quoting. Doctors aren’t perfect, no one is. The majority help more than they harm, but there are a few, that many likely would consider imperfect that actually causes more harm than good by doing stuff like intentionally adding to the opioid crisis or covid by calling it a hoax or spewing anti-vaxxer nonsense. (Don’t get this confused with doctors actually warning patients about the risks due to medical conditions)Over 250,000 people die to medical errors every year. It's the 3rd leading cause of death. Doctors aren't perfect.
Wrong. They were widely available, legit doctors prescribing and a reason pharmaceutical companies are looking to settle with a settlement in the tens of BILLIONS. Were these bad doctors? I am sure there was a bad seed or two among them but I am also pretty sure most were doing what they thought was right. What the current literature was telling them.Odds are those are also the type of medical professionals that are anti vaccine and think COVID is a hoax. The majority recommend getting vaccinated yet the anti vaxxers find the very few that dont and blast it all over social media so it looks like they have some sort of credibility, just like the majority of doctors are legit, but junkies are able to find 1 or 2 in their town that will write illegitimate prescriptions to feed their opiod addiction.
...... but they are not the individuals standing in the way of the development of herd immunity. There are not enough of them to put a dent in that goal....
Half the country is yet to be vaccinated, and among those over the age of 12, very few of them have worthwhile reasons not to be vaccinated. Lazy? Sure. Misinformed? Of course. Politically partisan? Absolutely. Selfish? Yep, it's the American way........
You have brought up herd immunity several times but is it even attainable? That was the goal but they don't know. Did not these medical savients think things would get better last summer only for them to get worse? That is okay, they didn't know and we are still finding out.
In a paper in the October 2020 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers modeled what a COVID-19 vaccine with varying types of protection could mean. They found that if a vaccine protects 80 percent of those immunized and 75 percent of the population is vaccinated, it could largely end an epidemic without other measures such as social distancing.
Please remember, I am pro-immunization. Just not forced. Widespread vaccination would absolutely help minimize the impact of covid but that article is dated. It was published prior to the vaccine being widely or even available other than in the limited trials being run. It was no more than a hypothetical. Since then we have had newer strains and have now shown a diminishing effectiveness over time in Isreal.Herd immunity is definitely attainable, but people have to get the vaccines. Same with the flu shot. It works. But when less than 50% get the shot every year, it prevents herd immunity from being achieved. I posted earlier in this thread about it (repeated below). And the protection rate from the current vaccines is MUCH higher than 80%.
Vaccines Need Not Completely Stop COVID Transmission to Curb the Pandemic - Scientific American
Wasn't it Churchill that was quoted, "I never trust a statisic unless I falsified it myself?" Or something like that.I think all statistics when it comes to this need to be taken with a grain of salt. When you see the covid death count, are all these people dying because of covid or are people dying with covid? Is the VAERS count a bunch of malarkey or is there some truth to it and it's being suppressed by those who have a vested interest in the vaccine? Almost every time we're told something "factual" about this whole ordeal, it turns out to be wrong within a few months.
It's not fair to only question things you don't believe in and blindly follow the things you do. I say question the validity of everything. Stats aren't stats if they are manipulated into making you believe something that isn't true. Science isn't science if it's funded by a company that has an interest in the science looking a certain way once the tests have been done. What we think are the best minds in the world don't always have our best interests at heart.
The push to get us all vaccinated started with "c'mon man", then morphed into "Everyone in the state of Alabama gets a sixer of Natty Light" to now them pushing to make people's lives incredibly difficult if they don't just go get the shot. I'd like them to prove that we won't be a part of a class action lawsuit in 10 years over the long term side effects of this thing. But the coercion going on around it makes people trust it even less.
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The push to get us all vaccinated started with "c'mon man", then morphed into "Everyone in the state of Alabama gets a sixer of Natty Light" to now them pushing to make people's lives incredibly difficult if they don't just go get the shot. I'd like them to prove that we won't be a part of a class action lawsuit in 10 years over the long term side effects of this thing. But the coercion going on around it makes people trust it even less.
Again, you are making a blanket statement based on the small %. Getting a valid prescription for oxy was available from legit doctors prescribing legit pain yes. But this opioid crisis are from the small amount of crappy doctors running drug mills pumping out hundreds to thousands of prescriptions a day of high dose oxy or fentanyl or whatever to people they know well and true do not need them and are just addicted. They drive across state boarders in hoards to these specific “pain clinics” to do this. There are documentaries and news reports on this happening. To say it’s the majority of legitimate doctors that cause this is irresponsible when it’s the minors bad ones that are the main cause. Can a good doctor unknowingly get a patient addicted? Yes it’s possible. But chances are that would be a small percentage of the overall problem vs bad doctors pumping hundreds of thousands of pills into the streets. This situation is just another example of what we all have been talking about. Taking a small percentage and blowing it up to make it the excuse. Doctors against the shot, deaths from the vaccines, breakthrough cases from the vaccinated etc. it’s all a very small %. But all it takes is one unfactual meme on Facebook or Twitter to get shared and all these people on the fence will keep holding off. My main problem isn’t those that can’t get the shot. Or even the few that legitimately don’t get the shot because they researched it or are waiting to see longer effects from it (but still wear masks and social distance). I honestly think they are a minority of the problem. My problem is with the ones who won’t get the shot and won’t wear masks going to super spreader events like nothing is wrong and blasts fake info on social media to get others to do the same as them. They are the ones who are hurting the cause and the reason we can get back to normalcy.Wrong. They were widely available, legit doctors prescribing and a reason pharmaceutical companies are looking to settle with a settlement in the tens of BILLIONS. Were these bad doctors? I am sure there was a bad seed or two among them but I am also pretty sure most were doing what they thought was right. What the current literature was telling them.
Wasn't heroine first developed and touted as the miracle drug for morphine addiction?
Wrong. When these came in the market, they weren't expected to have the addictive properties that they have now shown to have. That data was manipulated hidden whatever you want to call it. That is why there will be a settlement in the tens of Billions. There were bad doctors but the BAD actors were the pharmaceutical companies pushing their pill of choice. Why do pharmaceutical companies advertise to the general public? Because it is effective. Same type pushing the vaccines.Again, you are making a blanket statement based on the small %. Getting a valid prescription for oxy was available from legit doctors prescribing legit pain yes. But this opioid crisis are from the small amount of crappy doctors running drug mills pumping out hundreds to thousands of prescriptions a day of high dose oxy or fentanyl or whatever to people they know well and true do not need them and are just addicted. They drive across state boarders in hoards to these specific “pain clinics” to do this. There are documentaries and news reports on this happening. To say it’s the majority of legitimate doctors that cause this is irresponsible when it’s the minors bad ones that are the main cause. Can a good doctor unknowingly get a patient addicted? Yes it’s possible. But chances are that would be a small percentage of the overall problem vs bad doctors pumping hundreds of thousands of pills into the streets. This situation is just another example of what we all have been talking about. Taking a small percentage and blowing it up to make it the excuse. Doctors against the shot, deaths from the vaccines, breakthrough cases from the vaccinated etc. it’s all a very small %. But all it takes is one unfactual meme on Facebook or Twitter to get shared and all these people on the fence will keep holding off. My main problem isn’t those that can’t get the shot. Or even the few that legitimately don’t get the shot because they researched it or are waiting to see longer effects from it (but still wear masks and social distance). I honestly think they are a minority of the problem. My problem is with the ones who won’t get the shot and won’t wear masks going to super spreader events like nothing is wrong and blasts fake info on social media to get others to do the same as them. They are the ones who are hurting the cause and the reason we can get back to normalcy.
Lol every time you say “wrong” you keep moving the goal post or veer off the original topic. Original quote was doctors get people addicted to pain meds. I said a minority is purposely getting them addicted and the majority don’t. You said I was wrong and legit doctors AND big pharma are the reason for the opioid crisis. Again I never said the drug manufacturer wasn’t the problem, just the bad doctor were the main reason cuz they over prescribe illegitimately. Apparently I was wrong again, and now you’re saying the drug and the pharmaceutical companies are the reason. Which wasn’t part of the original question and something I never denied. We’re talking about majority of good doctors vs some bad. But if you want to live your life grouping all doctors together, all cops, all liberals/conservatives etc because a few bad apples then you do you but you might miss out on meeting good people who have different views.Wrong. When these came in the market, they weren't expected to have the addictive properties that they have now shown to have. That data was manipulated hidden whatever you want to call it. That is why there will be a settlement in the tens of Billions. There were bad doctors but the BAD actors were the pharmaceutical companies pushing their pill of choice. Why do pharmaceutical companies advertise to the general public? Because it is effective. Same type pushing the vaccines.
We have an opiate crisis in rural America because as the supply line was starved off, cheap heroine took the pills place. I live in rural America and I see it first hand. And I only see the tip of the iceberg.
Lol every time you say “wrong” you keep moving the goal post or veer off the original topic. Original quote was doctors get people addicted to pain meds. I said a minority is purposely getting them addicted and the majority don’t. You said I was wrong and legit doctors AND big pharma are the reason for the opioid crisis. Again I never said the drug manufacturer wasn’t the problem, just the bad doctor were the main reason cuz they over prescribe illegitimately. Apparently I was wrong again, and now you’re saying the drug and the pharmaceutical companies are the reason. Which wasn’t part of the original question and something I never denied. We’re talking about majority of good doctors vs some bad. But if you want to live your life grouping all doctors together, all cops, all liberals/conservatives etc because a few bad apples then you do you but you might miss out on meeting good people who have different views.
I think all statistics when it comes to this need to be taken with a grain of salt. When you see the covid death count, are all these people dying because of covid or are people dying with covid? Is the VAERS count a bunch of malarkey or is there some truth to it and it's being suppressed by those who have a vested interest in the vaccine? Almost every time we're told something "factual" about this whole ordeal, it turns out to be wrong within a few months.
It's not fair to only question things you don't believe in and blindly follow the things you do. I say question the validity of everything. Stats aren't stats if they are manipulated into making you believe something that isn't true. Science isn't science if it's funded by a company that has an interest in the science looking a certain way once the tests have been done. What we think are the best minds in the world don't always have our best interests at heart.
The push to get us all vaccinated started with "c'mon man", then morphed into "Everyone in the state of Alabama gets a sixer of Natty Light" to now them pushing to make people's lives incredibly difficult if they don't just go get the shot. I'd like them to prove that we won't be a part of a class action lawsuit in 10 years over the long term side effects of this thing. But the coercion going on around it makes people trust it even less.
I guess it wasn't the doctors that were over prescribing antibiotics too?Lol every time you say “wrong” you keep moving the goal post or veer off the original topic. Original quote was doctors get people addicted to pain meds. I said a minority is purposely getting them addicted and the majority don’t. You said I was wrong and legit doctors AND big pharma are the reason for the opioid crisis. Again I never said the drug manufacturer wasn’t the problem, just the bad doctor were the main reason cuz they over prescribe illegitimately. Apparently I was wrong again, and now you’re saying the drug and the pharmaceutical companies are the reason. Which wasn’t part of the original question and something I never denied. We’re talking about majority of good doctors vs some bad. But if you want to live your life grouping all doctors together, all cops, all liberals/conservatives etc because a few bad apples then you do you but you might miss out on meeting good people who have different views.
I think we are misunderstanding each other. If a doctor prescibes medications based on the information available, that doesn't make them a bad doctor. I have stained teeth because of medications mom was given while pregnant. Those doctors were not bad but the medication given was. I agree there are bad doctors with bad intentions but they are the minority.Lol every time you say “wrong” you keep moving the goal post or veer off the original topic. Original quote was doctors get people addicted to pain meds. I said a minority is purposely getting them addicted and the majority don’t. You said I was wrong and legit doctors AND big pharma are the reason for the opioid crisis. Again I never said the drug manufacturer wasn’t the problem, just the bad doctor were the main reason cuz they over prescribe illegitimately. Apparently I was wrong again, and now you’re saying the drug and the pharmaceutical companies are the reason. Which wasn’t part of the original question and something I never denied. We’re talking about majority of good doctors vs some bad. But if you want to live your life grouping all doctors together, all cops, all liberals/conservatives etc because a few bad apples then you do you but you might miss out on meeting good people who have different views.
Please remember, I am pro-immunization. Just not forced. Widespread vaccination would absolutely help minimize the impact of covid but that article is dated. It was published prior to the vaccine being widely or even available other than in the limited trials being run. It was no more than a hypothetical. Since then we have had newer strains and have now shown a diminishing effectiveness over time in Isreal.
That diminishing return doesn't mean that the vaccination isn't warranted but I do think it puts legitimate doubts on the herd immunity that was hoped for. Isreal, I believe was over 60% vaccination but despite their strong advocacy couldn't hit 70%. They are seriously considering a third booster shot.