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Originally Posted by
BobbyLeeSwagger
Why is this thread still reasonably on the rails? Unsat[/QUOTE
Willing to get the yellowfever vax but still fighting the covid one is a mystery to me with these threads. I am sure there are reactions and reasons to not get the yellowfever one but it's known UAL requires it too.
The case fatality rate of severe yellow fever is 50% or higher. The pathogenesis and pathophysiology of the disease are poorly understood and have not been the subject of modern clinical research. There is no specific treatment for YF, making the management of YF patients extremely problematic.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15487593/
For COVID-19, on the other hand…
We report IFR estimates for April 15, 2020, to January 1, 2021, the period before the introduction of vaccines and widespread evolution of variants. We found substantial heterogeneity in the IFR by age, location, and time. Age-specific IFR estimates form a J shape, with the lowest IFR occurring at age 7 years (0·0023%, 95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·0015–0·0039) and increasing exponentially through ages 30 years (0·0573%, 0·0418–0·0870), 60 years (1·0035%, 0·7002–1·5727), and 90 years (20·3292%, 14·6888–28·9754)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...867-1/fulltext
I have from the start recommended the immunization for anyone’s INITIAL exposure to COVID-19. I still do.
Except:
1. Very few unimmunized people still are around who have not ALREADY either been immunized of been infected - at least everywhere outside of China.
2. There is a serious difference between a disease like yellow fever with a 50% mortality and a disease like COVID-19 which INITIALLY had 0.06% mortality in 30 year olds and which has now decreased since that time.
There are a LOT of diseases we have good immunizations to prevent that we don’t give shots for except in very specific cases. The efficacy of Japanese B Encephalitis immunization is over 99%, but in areas where it is endemic almost everyone who lives there had it as a kid and are immune and travelers only have about a 1 in a million chance of getting it on a trip. So do you immunize everyone going to that part of the world?
So yeah, I AM immunized against yellow fever and NOT immunized against Japanese B encephalitis because they have greatly differing risks. That isn’t unreasonable, just like most animal control people are immunized against rabies and the rest of us aren’t.
Why are you so concerned about another adult making a different decision than yours about something that won’t affect you even if they are wrong?