The risk of death from covid after vaccination is near zero and this seems to be the case despite the variants. The vaccines all seem to be holding up well against the variants so your friends info is anecdote not data. If you’re still worried, keep wearing a mask, taking vitamin d and avoid large gatherings with people of unknown vaccination status. Apart from that, assuming you are living in an area with high vaccinations rates, just get on with your life. I would suggest that the risk to your mental health from continued isolation is higher than the risk of long covid.
The risk of death from covid after vaccination is near zero and this seems to be the case despite the variants
This seems to be true, but this doesn’t obviously imply the risk of long COVID is significantly decreased. As far as I’m aware, no one has really studied this. On priors I’d guess that vaccines help a bunch, but I don’t understand what’s going on here very well.
And I think this is an important question, long COVID seems to represent a lot of the harm of COVID to young people. If case rates in your area aren’t that low, this definitely seems like a valid question to ask
My thoughts exactly. The only explanation (with the assumption that long Covid risk as a proportion of infections is actually lower in vaccinated individuals) that I can think of for why the JoinZOE paper may have found no significant effect in the reduction of long Covid as a proportion of cases (despite strong priors in favor of the opposite) is that perhaps people think of Covid less now and are more likely to drop off using the app if their symptoms don’t persist than they were in say, December 2020 or January 2021.
tbh, I would just ignore the anecdotes and focus on the JoinZOE paper preprint I linked in the post. I’m not worried about death from Covid as much as I am about the long haul symptoms. Death from Covid, as you have noted, is very rare among vaccinated individuals.
I still wear a mask almost everywhere I go. Only exception is for outdoor dining, where it’s not possible. But hey, it’s outdoors.
The risk of death from covid after vaccination is near zero and this seems to be the case despite the variants. The vaccines all seem to be holding up well against the variants so your friends info is anecdote not data. If you’re still worried, keep wearing a mask, taking vitamin d and avoid large gatherings with people of unknown vaccination status. Apart from that, assuming you are living in an area with high vaccinations rates, just get on with your life. I would suggest that the risk to your mental health from continued isolation is higher than the risk of long covid.
This seems to be true, but this doesn’t obviously imply the risk of long COVID is significantly decreased. As far as I’m aware, no one has really studied this. On priors I’d guess that vaccines help a bunch, but I don’t understand what’s going on here very well.
And I think this is an important question, long COVID seems to represent a lot of the harm of COVID to young people. If case rates in your area aren’t that low, this definitely seems like a valid question to ask
My thoughts exactly. The only explanation (with the assumption that long Covid risk as a proportion of infections is actually lower in vaccinated individuals) that I can think of for why the JoinZOE paper may have found no significant effect in the reduction of long Covid as a proportion of cases (despite strong priors in favor of the opposite) is that perhaps people think of Covid less now and are more likely to drop off using the app if their symptoms don’t persist than they were in say, December 2020 or January 2021.
tbh, I would just ignore the anecdotes and focus on the JoinZOE paper preprint I linked in the post. I’m not worried about death from Covid as much as I am about the long haul symptoms. Death from Covid, as you have noted, is very rare among vaccinated individuals.
I still wear a mask almost everywhere I go. Only exception is for outdoor dining, where it’s not possible. But hey, it’s outdoors.