There is a huge range of outcomes in-between dead and feeling fine. If you were in an ICU, you’ve probably got lingering issues. Long Covid is a real thing, like getting Lyme disease. Also, cognitive impairment, I.e.,brain fog. This is a high rate…
We can look at excess deaths. The normal death rate is pretty constant year to year, and Covid is the only pandemic in town at the moment.
I think that the discussion over rights in this thread has meandered into civilian workforce requirements and Biden's executive order (which a federal court has since put a stay on).
This doesn't really address what I'm saying. The overall odds of hospitalization given you have COVID-19 is 7%, which is still heavily skewed toward older people and people with pre-existing conditions. The mean age was 49 and not a single person in that study was younger than 38 (I also suspect a math error on the SD (14 years) because it's larger than the range of data - 38-59). I suppose the fact that 10-20% of those people get 'long COVID' is a concern (~1% of overall cases), but the majority of people who end up in the ICU outright die.
This despite the fact that the FDA's own approval paperwork makes it crystal clear that the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine under EUA and "Comirnaty" are chemically and legally distinct.
Some people may be using this as a pretext to separate before their contract is up. In those cases, waive the board and expedite the process. This happens all the time for other reasons in non-covid cases.
The article is a little confusing on that 38-59.
Ooo is there a breakdown available?
Citation needed. Not only did I not get that sense from reading the approval, quite the opposite in fact, but how would it make sense to have any kind of chemical difference between BnT and Comirnaty? "Hey, you know that drug you've spent the past year and a half developing, testing, and distributing under EUA to millions of people? Just keep distributing it under EUA. Also this different drug is approved."
I'm sorry, is there actually an argument that now that the Pfizer shot has a formal name that there's some sort of difference because the sticker on the bottle is different?Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop asking difficult questions. Don't you know that overnight all of the labels magically became "Comirnaty" labels?
Furthermore, I doubt there will ever be any follow-up on the long term longitudinal trials that were a stipulation of the FDA approval of "Comirnaty". With the apparent lack of any desire amongst the federal government to hold Pfizer, Biontech, or Moderna to any sort of accountability for their actions, I'm sure the trials will be canceled, deemed "successful," and then swept under the rug just like all of the allegations of falsifying the Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials have been.
Oh, fun with stats.
It's hard to tell whether this stuff is just being deployed as yet another bad faith argument from the "you can't tell me what to do" ensemble of five year olds, or if people are just stupid enough to believe anything they read online. Probably some of both. The fact that some people will latch on to any story or concept - no matter how absurd or far-fetched - simply because it supports their position or worldview, is concerning.
I can assure you no one is cutting any corners, at least at my NOSC. They are following RESPERSMAN to the letter for everything the last two years because of RCC inspections and re-inspections.
The opposite is true. At least on the AD side, this process is being micromanaged from above to ensure uniformity of outcome and fairness. A servicemember waiving an ADSEP board isn't cutting corners. It is, and always has been, part of the process.
