While Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only 15 per cent of the population had their updated shot this fall. But the virus is still spreading.
While Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only 15 per cent of the population had their updated shot this fall. But the virus is still spreading.
Well yeah. Its a vaccine that doesnt vaccincate. At this point, if you’re under the age of 60, better to just get covid. The hospitals arent over run anymore.
I prefer to minimize my chances of getting long covid, so getting vaccinated is the obvious choice.
Tell me you vote conservative without saying “F🍁ck Trudeau.”
Can you explain the difference between the small pox vaccine, a flu shot and an mrna vaccine?
edit: a typo
You get the small pox vaccine once, and it works. You get the flu shot, and you take a chance on it matching whatever flu variant spreads this season, but it does work against the variant its for. You get the covid shot, it works so poorly that it might as well not work at all, so you have to keep getting them.
I’m not a doctor, this is just what the instructions say.
If I wore a tin foil hat, Id wager this is more about Pfizers profits than public safety.
The smallpox vaccine was an active infection of cowpox that left you immune to both diseases. Seasonal flu shots use active flu virus, cultured in eggs, then inactivated and concentrated. Mrna vaccines are a set of rna instructions that tell your cells to make a bunch of unique proteins that a virus uses to enter your cells, this triggers your immune system to recognize that protein.
There is no related infection like cowpox and covid mutates too quickly to wait for literally a billion eggs to be laid. Mrna vaccines can be designed in days and manufactured in less than a month . The mortality rate of vaccinated people was a fraction of those who were not vaccinated, the vaccine does not stop you from getting all covid forever, it stops you from becoming severely ill from one particular strain. But every time it mutates a new vaccine has to be developed to match, the same as seasonal flu but 5x faster.
Didn’t know that that was how mnra works. Wild. And thanks, good explanation overall.
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