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Buckeye_Democrat

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11. About 2% to 3% of people are immunocompromised...

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sat May 22, 2021, 10:33 AM

May 2021

... too, so I hope those people will remain very cautious.

Since the vaccines work by priming our immune systems to react much faster to the spike proteins found on the outside of the coronavirus, the vaccines surely won't work as well for them.

I personally wish mask mandates hadn't been lifted yet, but it happened and now many more people need to be vaccinated to help all of us get through it safely.

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1.07% of the people who have died from Covid in IL since Jan 1 were fully vaxxed [View all] mucifer May 2021 OP

Interesting Sanity Claws May 2021 #1

Yeah, one percent is very low. But, not as low as I'd been lead to believe. mucifer May 2021 #2

That's what I thought, as well. This is another reason I will continue to mask up when Arkansas Granny May 2021 #3

Meaning 98.93% of Covid deaths involved individuals who were not fully vaxed Zambero May 2021 #4

That's 64 people out of almost 5mil vaccinated AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #5

It's one percent of the people who died from covid 19 since January. mucifer May 2021 #6

Not really AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #7

I got my first vaccine in December no regrets. I'm posting some public health facts which mucifer May 2021 #8

You are deliberately misstating the numbers AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #9

I think the 1% number is more powerful. carpetbagger May 2021 #14

The odds are clearly in favor of those who got vaccinated bronxiteforever May 2021 #10

About 2% to 3% of people are immunocompromised... Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #11

Not a meaningful statistic -- in January no one was fully vaccinated lostnfound May 2021 #12

Do not confuse that with the failure rate for the vaccine eallen May 2021 #13