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2020-12-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Texas, Florida vaccinate the elderly first in departure from CDC guidelines

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Health care workers more likely to catch it; elderly more likely to die from it. There's some logic to that.

Posted by Bobby 2020-12-24 08:05|| 2020-12-24 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 The concern is how to reduce the impact on hospitals and thereby allow the sickets to recieve care. Its pretty simple.

The group with the highest risk of hospitalization and death is the one consuming the most resources. They should be first to get vaccinated.

Most healthcare workers, especially those in direct care like patient aides, lab techs, and most nurses, are under age 60 and in adequate health. So although they are more likely to contract the Rona due to repeated exposure, they are significantly less likely to need hospitalization, need an ICU bed, or die from it.

The most vulnerable, most often hospitalized, and most often dying are the elderly. Fact is that the median age of death remains 80 years or so.

Followed by those over 18 with the listed comorbidities, like diabetes, heart disease or heart failure, pulmonary issues, and extreme obesity.

Everyone else can wait because there is a 99.98% chance that if they get the disease they will not die from it, the majority of whom will have either no symptoms or only mild ones, and then be out and about after 10 days or so.

Posted by Deadeye Jaiting7534 2020-12-24 09:28|| 2020-12-24 09:28|| Front Page Top

#3 CDC = Me first!, the most vulnerable, later...

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-12-24 09:55|| 2020-12-24 09:55|| Front Page Top

Yes, got mine earlier in the week, HFMFU.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-24 09:58|| 2020-12-24 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 One of the most recognized consequences of aging is a decline in immune function. While elderly individuals are by no means immunodeficient, they often do not respond efficiently to novel or previously encountered antigens. This is illustrated by increased vulnerability of individuals 70 years of age and older to influenza (1), a situation that is exacerbated by their poor response to vaccination (2–4).

In other words, science lost to politics.
Well, never mind, the protection conferred by immunization is likely to be short-term anyway.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-24 10:12|| 2020-12-24 10:12|| Front Page Top

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