Covid 19 conspiracies dump

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I'm looking at it right now. And while that part about how unvaccinated cases with a previous diagnosis have a lower hazard rate than vaccinated cases without a previous diagnosis, there's one more category you failed to include in your analysis: people who are both vaccinated and had a previous case. And where do those cases rank in the heirarchy provided by that paper? Those who both had the vaccine and the virus. So, whether or not you had the virus naturally, it's still better to have the jab just in case. Indeed, the fact that you had the first two doses of the vaccine might have helped make your case so comparatively mild.

The fact that Omicron has a reputation for being a "milder" variant is largely down to the fact that, while it's better at getting past your immune defenses than the previous variants, if you're vaccinated, your immune system is better at dealing with it. If you're not, it's still bad enough to put you in the hospital.

Plus one paper indicated that if individuals were not retested (or the result not reported) that they were excluded. Not testing with asymptomatic/minor symptoms or the up-tic in home testing or the lack of testing availability all together makes a major statistical difference in result numbers. This was prior to Omicron.