Speaking for myself, the important part of the “we” worrying about COVID are my unvaccinated kids. Without them, I would probably be like “COVID is mostly over, avoid spending too much time indoors with too many people, but otherwise it’s mostly okay”. With kids, it’s more like “let’s wait a few more months”.
A lot of them have their own summaries if you open the links, but I would recommend focusing on the “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID” links + playing around yourself with https://www.microcovid.org. I’ve added quotes of the estimates from “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID” to the post. These two figures from https://www.mattbell.us/delta-and-long-covid/ (with estimates derived in the article) seem relevant:
The author wrote:
Based on all the above evidence, I’m making a very rough guess that mRNA vaccination cuts the risk of a Delta COVID infection developing into long COVID in half, independent of vaccination’s reduction of the risk of catching Delta at all.
So, for unvaccinated people, you would double the risks in these figures. Note also that the risks here are higher than in the other 2 links in “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID”.
A short summary would be nice.
Speaking for myself, the important part of the “we” worrying about COVID are my unvaccinated kids. Without them, I would probably be like “COVID is mostly over, avoid spending too much time indoors with too many people, but otherwise it’s mostly okay”. With kids, it’s more like “let’s wait a few more months”.
A lot of them have their own summaries if you open the links, but I would recommend focusing on the “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID” links + playing around yourself with https://www.microcovid.org. I’ve added quotes of the estimates from “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID” to the post. These two figures from https://www.mattbell.us/delta-and-long-covid/ (with estimates derived in the article) seem relevant:
The author wrote:
So, for unvaccinated people, you would double the risks in these figures. Note also that the risks here are higher than in the other 2 links in “Overall how bad it is to catch COVID”.