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Covid-19 Who's planning on getting a COVID-19 vaccine? (Poll)

Well, the UK situation is rather more predictable. The Australian situation is dependent on it remaining Covid free, so there's a lot of what-if's that make those calculations rather impossible. Here's a valid question - do you have access to an alternative vaccine?
 
@novaveritas

I edited my post. You might like what I added to it.

I'm actually conflicted about AstraZeneca now. If the blood clots are caused by the vaccine and young people are getting them more than old people, I'm not entirely convinced that it is safer for people in Australia to get this particular vaccine. I haven't done the math yet, because I don't have the time. (Working 6 days a week now.) I live in a country with basically no COVID-19. I work with people who are seriously ill. I'd hate to see one of them die from blood clots because they took a vaccine against a virus that is extremely unlikely to affect them... but (at the same time) selfishly I want the country to open back up and Australia invested heavily in the only fucking vaccine that (maybe) has serious side-effects.

I'm nearly 40 myself. My friend got the blood clots one week after receiving his first jab. He was perfectly healthy. Not sure if he's going to die now... Honestly, I'm a little apprehensive about getting the second jab. I'd much rather have any of the other mainstream vaccines.
This is unlikely to go down well here but who gives a fuck.

the trade off is risk being infected (% chance of infection in 1 year) X risk of serious outcome from covid infection

vs risk of vaccine divided by vaccine effectiveness (power of vaccine to prevent illness)

Young people might not get clots from the vaccine at a greater rate than old people but they have less risk of coming off badly in a fight with the covid, therefore the individual risk benefit calculation looks bad.

That is why I have said it is always a personal choice whether to take it or not perhaps based on doing your own numbers. A choice that should not be coerced or forced.

I personally think taking any vaccine should be 10x or ideally 100x safer than doing nothing, 90-99% chance taking it is the right choice, because unlike treatments for pre-existing illness the vaccine is given to healthy individuals. So my personal safety number for covid is <1 in 1.6 million for deaths due to vaccine before taking the vaccine is 10 times better than doing nothing, ie 90% chance that taking the vaccine is the right choice. FWIW my annual all causes risk of death is currently one in 880 with the corona being <1/200th of that risk......actuarial tables are such fun.

If I ran a drug to market for sick people that killed one person for every one it saved then I would be in front of the regulator, unless the disease was super lethal and otherwise un-treatable ( maybe perhaps some cancers). If I ran a drug to market that killed one in 1000 but saved the other 999 sick people then it would still be questioned. If I ran a drug to market that was dosed into healthy people but killed 1 person for every 99 people saved it would be withdrawn.

I don't have the exact numbers for clotting in front of me and Oxford-AZ ChAdOx-nCov19 but it is almost certainly more frequent than 1 in 100,000, 1 in 25k looks likely. Ballpark numbers are good enough.
30-40 year olds Covid IFR is maximum upper bound 0.02% and perhaps 10x that for hospitalization so one in 500 for hospitalization and one in 5000 for dead maximum. multiply that by risk of infection say 5% (0% in Australia) in the next year so one in 10,000 chance of being hospitalized and one in 100,000 chance of being dead of the covid. or zero and zero in Australia.

That math all stacks up with real world numbers. cold numbers.

so one in 5k x infection rate (5%) = 1 in 100k for dead from the covid vs 1 in 100k to 250k dead from the AZ vaccine. Flick a coin heads or tails.

if every <30 year old was vaccinated with Oxford-AZ then the math is at least one person will die from the vaccine for every person who is saved in that age group, and the people who die will not necessarily be those who covid would take. sub 18s is much much worse the vaccine would be much more lethal than the rona. An ethical trolley problem on a countrywide scale.

Nod sagely when people virtue signal about the necessity of younger people being vaccinated against the corona, and are desperate to get it, knowing they can't have done the math. The fearful boomers are fucking over the rest of the population again.

In Australia without circulating coronavirus there is no calculation involving taking the Oxford-AZ vaccine that makes sense. Whilst Coronavirus will make it back into Australia but it is likely to be by then a strain that Astra Zeneca is not very effective against. Not that AZ was very effective against the original strain in the trials, there is simply no way that AZ is more effective in the real world than in controlled clinical trials (50-60% effective). The Australian government did have another vaccine that they threw money at, unfortunately the vaccine used a HIV protein and caused false HIV positive test results....that wasn't predictable.

If the clotting is caused by spike protein then pretty much all the other vaccines are not in the clear either. Leaving aside the persistant signal neurological side effects these vaccines are showing. We are in the middle of the biggest Phase 3 trial ever seen, P1 and P2 was short circuited, hopefully everyone gets lucky.

It looks like roughly 1 in 10 with immune thrombocytopenia from the vaccine died so your friend has a >90% chance of full recovery.

The false Hobsons choice between vaccination vs no vaccination and lockdown, get vaccinated and lockdowns will be released is dishonest and manipulative, the UK has most of the most vulnerable fully vaccinated but lockdown is still in place.

Don't expect the government to keep its side of the bargain and give back the freedoms it has stolen, they won't without a fight.
 
@novaveritas

Unless I'm mistaken, young people are getting clots more than older people.
that would be bad if true because not only do they have lower risk of bad outcome from covid they also have lower risk in general of blood clots than older people so the vaccine is really making things much worse.

I figured the clot rate caused by the vaccine is the same in olds and young but it was noticed in younger recipients because it was highly unusual.
 

"although the actual rate is extremely low, it does look like it's higher in young people than it is in old people," Sir Kent Woods, the former chair of the European Medicines Agency, told ABC Radio.
 
Okay, so statistically, you're more likely to die of covid by choosing not to have the vaccine than you are of blood clots, which are, based on the available information, extremely rare. Keep in mind though, nothing happens in a bubble. My advice is get vaccinated. My advice is also that Astra-Zenica is a company that has a history of releasing very sloppy data on its vaccine, failing to meet its commitments to its customers, and going back to before this of deliberately falsifying research on the risk of side effects from its medications (See their settlement to the tune of $5b+ over their marketing of seroquel off label and without warning about its potential for metabolic side effects). In my view, they are a company that should have received the Purdue treatment long ago. No pharmaceutical companies are angels, but once you get caught hiding research that makes your product look bad, that's a line that can't be uncrossed in my view.

Read into that what you will. Personally, I will be getting the Pfizer.
Pfizer are no better and no worse than AZ. Pfizer hid deeply concerning safety date relating to celcoxib cox-2 inhibitor, Pfizer got caught and found guilty billion dollar settlement regarding Bextra Valdecoxib, Johnson and Johnson hid data about asbestos in baby powder Jannsen hid evidence that its antipsychotics caused organic brain damage.... Insiders know they are all the same undeneath.
 
Insiders know they are all the same undeneath.
I generally agree. The thing I find particularly egregious with the AZ issue though is that they actively used a case study of a patient who experienced atypical weight loss in their marketing of seroquel. It wasn't just hiding the data, they actually went so far as to pretend it did the opposite of what the data was saying.
 
OK thanks. I am hoping they are wrong.

This must be prefaced with we don't have significant numbers of younger people having received AZ and many european medicines agency area countries are not deploying it to younger people, it can't get FDA approval at the moment, South Africa were not using it because it is ineffective against the SA variant. Which leaves India as the country that has deployed it into younger people. Hmm, let me think do I trust Indian regulatory pharmacovigilance.
 
I generally agree. The thing I find particularly egregious with the AZ issue though is that they actively used a case study of a patient who experienced atypical weight loss in their marketing of seroquel. It wasn't just hiding the data, they actually went so far as to pretend it did the opposite of what the data was saying.
If you know where the bodies are buried then AZ is not that bad. Of course Pfizer lied thoroughly about fluoxetine Prozac (edit: my bad it was sertraline Zoloft a different SSRI where Pfizer hid child suicides) and suicides in children and teens iirc they moved suicides into the control arm, not great if your antidepressant cures depression by making people kill themselves, granted post mortem they were not depressed, but that doesn't meet my definition of cured.

If you want ot know who manipulated the vaccine trial data with Oxford AZ then look at the Oxford Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccitech people.

I am not defending AZ, they are big and ugly enough to know better than work with people like Oxford and let Oxford pull any of the levers.
 
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My issue with all the vaccines is the limited testing time they had. When you see what some drugs do in terms of side effects & they have been tested long term it's shocking. These Covid vaccines are also on this NRMA stuff which it totally new, who knows what it may do long term.
 
My issue with all the vaccines is the limited testing time they had. When you see what some drugs do in terms of side effects & they have been tested long term it's shocking. These Covid vaccines are also on this NRMA stuff which it totally new, who knows what it may do long term.
MRNA cures dyslexia or was that NRMA?
 
I’m getting mine after all, I’ll let ya’ll know if I die or not.

After doing my research I’ve concluded that even if the CDC only gets 1% of the negative side effects reports, that my chances are still much worse when it comes to potentially catching Covid and being left with long Covid.

-GC
 
@novaveritas Well damn man you sure know what you're on about & see this the same way as I do.

All the people smiling when they are injected with God knows what is so freaky to me, those lot who trust big pharma must be mad.
 
I got Pfizer, it's the one I feel the most comfortable with for whatever reason. My second dose is in about 3 weeks. I kinda wanted the J&J, especially since I already had COVID so have some immunity from that. But Pfizer was available and it seems like the best one, anyway.
 
As I'm under 30 I'm probably gonna be the last On the list at least in the big picture good old Britain is getting back on track it's estimated up to 70% of adults will be immune in a weeks time can't effing wait for lockdown to end if I was offered it though I would defo take it kind of a no brainer
 
What do I do if I had the first AZ jab and I don't want to get the second one? I assume you can't mix and match? If I got the first jab and didn't have nasty side effects does that mean I won't get clots from the second one?
 
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