U.S. Senator tweets about COVID vaccines and innate immunity are exactly what you shouldn’t believe

Anti-Baxers are real, less noticeable in India, but a strong community in the west.

They oppose vaccination of themselves and those around them, and will often trample unproven and unfounded conspiracy theories to justify their argument.

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As the majority of the world is eagerly awaiting the COVID-19 vaccine, anti-vaccinators are back and they are doing their best-the vaccine is fighting to discredit and resist it.

Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, is one such case, and he Efficiency of COVID-19 vaccine.

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Great news!

-Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective

-Moderna vaccine 94.5% effective-Naturally acquired COVID-19 99.9982% effective *

* (Estimates 200 reinfections out of 11 million Americans, which may overestimate the actual reinfection)

Paul said in a tweet, but it’s full of problems.

Great news!
-Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective
-Moderna vaccine 94.5% effective-Naturally acquired COVID-19 99.9982% effective *

* (Estimates 200 reinfections out of 11 million Americans, which may overestimate the actual reinfection)

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 17, 2020

In the first place, he seems to favor herd immunity by infection rather than vaccines.

this is WHO and some top scientists have repeatedly warned that betting on herd immunity due to infection is potentially dangerous.

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WHO was saying that Herd immunity has never been used as a strategy To respond to outbreaks in the history of public health, not to mention pandemics.

The data so far is Infected with COVID-19 is immune to the virus It is still unclear how long it will last.

Another argument often made by advocates of herd immunity is to point out the low mortality rate of COVID-19.

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The mortality rate of COVID-19 is about 1%. This means that 99 out of 100 infected patients have the potential to recover.

It sounds good in theory, but it’s much more complicated in real life.Elderly people with comorbidities Estimated COVID-19 The fact that they are safe can have fatal consequences.

Another problem caused by more infections is that hospitals are burdened and people in need of urgent life-saving emergency can be denied it.

As expected, Paul’s tweet didn’t work for many Americans, including healthcare professionals.

Yeah. That’s great news, except that hundreds of thousands have died and millions can have chronic health problems after infection.

–PádraigÓ Séa ġ⁇a (@poshea) November 17, 2020

I would like to see a TV drug ad for “Natural Covid Immunity”.

“It has not been proven safe by the FDA for humans. Side effects include months of acute illness, heart attachment, stroke, renal failure, and loss of smell. 250,000 deaths reported I am. “

— Donald Stephenson (@ Chrystan2001) November 17, 2020

If you are a doctor who is actually practicing at the forefront of this hell, you will know that reinfection is actually much more common than that.Instead, that’s why we have to call security for patients who are yelling at us about work masks

-Dr. Spar, Woman of Appaltian Medicine (@EspaarDO) November 18, 2020

This is impressively irresponsible. Do you suggest that it is good for people to get immunity through infections rather than vaccines?
Both are immune, but vaccines are much safer than infecting them.

— Colin Parker, MD (@ parkercj4) November 17, 2020

Next, we will discuss the number of people who are willing to die from this herd immunity through an outbreak strategy.

-John Legend (@johnlegend) November 17, 2020

By the way, this isn’t the first time a Republican senator has made unfounded and potentially dangerous comments about dealing with the outbreak of COVID-19.

“We should tell them to celebrate,” Paul said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday night. “We told them Throw away their masks These people are now immune, so go to a restaurant and live again. “

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This was immediately rejected by the doctor.

“I don’t know why he says that,” Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist at the University of Washington Medical Center, told MSNBC about Paul’s comment. “If you are infected with COVID-19, there is no evidence that you are infected. Not affected by reinfection at any time.. “