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60% of Americans say they probably won't get an updated Covid-19 vaccine

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I will continue getting them until I see studies / reporting indicating that the potential effects of long-covid are close to nil. I have read a fair number of articles suggesting permanent impairment of different sorts, with mental decline being the most frightening (to me).

I remember being aghast at the "just a flu" crowd, and trying to point out even some very optimistic napkin-math was enough to show it was a multi-billion-dollar issue, even if we only looked at outright deaths.

Throw in medical care, lost work, and now long-term disabilities... and it's even worse.

~17M people in the US alone suffer from long covid.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/as-reco...

How many from long flu to fairly compare?

Flu and Covid are pretty similar fyi, people just underestimate the flu.

The flu left me sick for three years as a young teenager. At a certain point I just assumed I wouldn't get better, luckily I did though.

But most people don't catch the flu once a year, while catching covid once a year isn't unexpected.

How many times have you had the flu?

Probably 3, definitely once.

I've had Covid 5 times (I'm vaccinated, though I got the alpha variant before vaccines).

The first flu I got almost made me fail freshman year of high school. Fever and aches lasted for 5 days.

The first Covid I had was nearly as bad, but the worst it was over in 2-3 days compared to that flu strain that I got. Covid leftover symptoms dragged on for a few weeks. I also got the fatigue people were talking about, but I can't decouple those symptoms from the isolation, then I had a kid right after too.

It’s easier for those of us vaxxed and got mildly sick to blame old age instead of covid complications.

That said, the number of delta people I know with tinnitus is crazy. I go crazy just thinking about it.

The effects of long-covid are definitely not nil. However having now had the jab 4 times and covid 3 times I'm kind of thinking my immune system must be pretty prepared by now. I'm not sure if there's been much research on the benefits of the much vaxxed/exposed getting yet more vax?

We don't need to track what people say, we have a few years history of having boosters available - and the uptake is low.

Last year [2023], 22.5 percent of adults and 14.4 percent of children received the updated Covid vaccine, according to the CDC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/29/what-to-know-about-...

I expect that the percentage will continue to drop as no one wants to cover it in the news, and there are more attention-grabbing headlines.

Only reason I got the first is because my income was tied to it. I already had COVID19 at least twice by then

edit: I'm pretty sure getting vaccinated put me at more risk than I generally endured. Both cases were from unusual training trips; I'm a wilful shut-in

Surprising how the researchers seem unable to poll for their opinions without making the political preferences an issue.

How about just reporting the results without bringing their political preferences into the matter.

That would be close to research malpractice to ignore such an easily observable major causal factor

How is a political preference a causal factor? Why isn't it considered a correlation rather than a cause?

I lived in new york at the time and I fully regret getting the vaccine. I still got covid with full symptoms.

It’s wild how different experiences can be. I’ve had five vaccinations for Covid (two initial, three boosters) and my antibody tests at every annual physical show I’ve never gotten it.

I was fully on board for the vaccine initially, but I've had nearly life-threatening gut issues a few times and now have to deal with all kinds of cardiovascular issues.

It's manageable and not long covid but my doctor said he's never seen this in someone my age (late 20s).

The lack of safety info / bad info provided to sway people like me who used it to do basic risk calculus is beyond criminal.

It's manageable and not long covid but my doctor said he's never seen this in someone my age (late 20s).

So you took the vaccine and it ruined your gut and your cardiovascular system? It's proven to be related to the vaccine ?

Do you mask in public? I had a friend who got the updated vaccine in August and then went on a plane trip two weeks later but didn't wear a mask. He came down with Covid which laid him out for several days. The vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting it.

I did during the pandemic, but stopped when most pandemic restrictions were lifted. I have been directly exposed for up to a week at a time with people who were confirmed to have had it (partner, emergency dept visit, etc). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Given that you’ll never know what might’ve happened without the vaccine, how can you regret it?

Its possible (although as yet unproven) that exposure to pollutants stops vaccines working properly e:g google "PFAS vaccine efficacy".

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