Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was bold in his projection that we will have herd immunity by April. This has been challenged by those who do not approach its level of public health expertise, but receive the push because it destroys the Democratic Party’s COVID blocking regime. In an option for The Wall Street Journal, Makary says that we underestimate natural immunity and, with the pace of vaccinations, we will reach that critical benchmark in the direction of normalcy by the fiscal season.
“About 1 in 600 Americans died from Covid-19, which translates into a population mortality rate of about 0.15%. The mortality rate from Covid-19 infection is about 0.23%, ”wrote Dr. Makary. With these figures, he estimates that two-thirds of the country has already had the infection. We are fast approaching 100 million vaccinations. It’s not a crazy projection, but he says other health experts are afraid to push for fear of affecting vaccination rates. It’s none of their business, he argued. Good health news should be disseminated, not buried. There has been a comeback and there will be more when he recently wrote about vaccination protocols.
The good doctor cited an Israeli study that shows that those who received the Pfizer vaccine are practically “bulletproof” four weeks after the first dose. This is the key word right there. So we can get back to normal if the CDC was not so busy dealing with the exaggerated threat of the virus and was struck by fear, which Makary noted with the latest guidelines. Is it “to follow science” or “to be afraid, to be very afraid”?
Get the shot, wait for the moon and start rebuilding our lives. Correct. This seems to be based on science, which the CDC might ignore. You are the judge (through WSJ):
Some of the new guidelines are absurdly restrictive. For example, the CDC did not withdraw its advice to avoid air travel after vaccination. One year of experience in prevaccination has shown that airplanes are not a source of spread. A study conducted for the defense department found that commercial aircraft have HEPA filtration and airflow that exceed the standards of a hospital operating room.
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An unpublished study by the Israeli Ministry of Health and Pfizer showed that vaccination reduced transmission by 89% to 94% and almost completely prevented hospitalization and death, according to press reports. Immunity begins completely about four weeks after the first dose of vaccine and then you are essentially bulletproof. With the added certainty of wearing a mask indoors for a few more weeks or months – a practical necessity in public places, even if not a medical one, because it is not obvious whether someone is immune – there are few vaccinated people. discouraged to do.
On a positive note, the CDC said fully vaccinated people who are asymptomatic should not be tested. But that obvious recommendation should have come two months ago, before losing so many tests to people with high levels of circulating antibodies in vaccination.
In its guidance, the CDC says the risks of infection in vaccinated people “cannot be completely eliminated.” True, we have no conclusive data to guarantee that vaccination reduces risk to zero. We will never do it. We operate in the field of medical discretion based on the best available data, as practicing physicians have always done. The CDC highlights the amazing success of vaccines, but is ridiculously cautious about its implications. Public health officials focus short-sighted on the risk of transmission, but also ignore the general health crisis resulting from isolation. The CDC acknowledges the “potential” risks of isolation, but does not go into details.
It is time to release vaccinated people to restore our relationships and rebuild our lives. This would encourage vaccination, giving hesitant people a living incentive to get vaccines.
During the pandemic, the authorities missed the precautionary sign. Hospitals prevented family members from being with loved ones while blowing air, groping on a ventilation tube – what some patients describe as the worst feeling in the world. In addition to the power of holding hands, family members coordinate care and serve as a valuable safety net, a partnership that was extremely necessary when many hospitals were understaffed. The separation of family members was excessive and cruel, determined by a restricted thinking that focused singularly on reducing the risk of viral transmission, without taking into account the damage to the quality of human life.
He added that mental health problems had exploded because of the deadlock that teachers’ unions, democrats and the free media ignore. The children commit suicide. Anxiety and depression have also increased among students. Loneliness and isolation will be the real “long-term” symptom of this pandemic, which could be partially alleviated if our experts actually gave us advice that was not so covered in nonsense.