So in the off chance I am forced to take the vaccine is there a clear cut much less dangerous one to choose? I'd like to not be sterilized but I guess I'll take that over severe physical impairments.
There really isn't enough data yet, even on short term reactions. Given that the majority of the medical community will have been vaccinated over the next few months, we should know by summer. There are just too many unknowns right now.
Despite all the "news", we are seeing far fewer really sick Covid patients. The various mutations of the disease, seem to have made it less deadly than when we first started seeing it almost a year ago.
In most cases, the covid positive patients we are admitting to the hospital have borderline health to begin with. Underlying breathing issues such as COPD, severe asthma or CHF (congestive heart failure) and people on dialysis comprise most of them. Covid + Diabetes (without other major health issues) doesn't seem to be enough. We get a fair number of people whose blood sugar is so poorly managed that they need admission, and just happen to be covid positive.
We are also seeing a lot of people getting admitted because they have let their health decline over the past several months/year and haven't been seeing their provider as they should. I had a patient (non-Covid) last week that had been feeling worse over the past month and only came in because they were tired of being nagged by their family member at home. That patient was in the middle of a heart attack and had suffered some smaller heart attacks in the week before coming in.
So in the off chance I am forced to take the vaccine is there a clear cut much less dangerous one to choose? I'd like to not be sterilized but I guess I'll take that over severe physical impairments.
There really isn't enough data yet, even on short term reactions. Given that the majority of the medical community will have been vaccinated over the next few months, we should know by summer. There are just too many unknowns right now.
Despite all the "news", we are seeing far fewer really sick Covid patients. The various mutations of the disease, seem to have made it less deadly than when we first started seeing it almost a year ago.
In most cases, the covid positive patients we are admitting to the hospital have borderline health to begin with. Underlying breathing issues such as COPD, severe asthma or CHF (congestive heart failure) and people on dialysis comprise most of them. Covid + Diabetes (without other major health issues) doesn't seem to be enough. We get a fair number of people whose blood sugar is so poorly managed that they need admission, and just happen to be covid positive.
We are also seeing a lot of people getting admitted because they have let their health decline over the past several months/year and haven't been seeing their provider as they should. I had a patient (non-Covid) last week that had been feeling worse over the past month and only came in because they were tired of being nagged by their family member at home. That patient was in the middle of a heart attack and had suffered some smaller heart attacks in the week before coming in.