ST Alpha - "I'm not surprised. My doctor told me today that the vaccines don't really help anymore other than to help keep you out of the hospital." (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 160

In response to "And my employer is dropping its Covid vaccine mandate to be in the office as of this coming Monday." by znufrii

I'm not surprised. My doctor told me today that the vaccines don't really help anymore other than to help keep you out of the hospital.

Posted by sycor Jul 21 '22, 09:46

They do not help keep you from getting the new variant. And from his experience, he has not had a patient die of covid in 8 months. He has had people get sick but it's usually very mild. He had an 88 year old patient with severe chronic lung disease who is already on oxygen get Covid, and they were fine after a few days.

Of course, everyone's mileage will vary. And vaccines will help it from being a bad infection, but at this point I'm not sure requiring the old vaccines are worth it. But that can change once they have a new vaccine which will help with the new variant. But at this point, Covid seems to be the new flu which will be around forever and you may or may not get it.

Responses:

i mean, that seems like they help a lot ? -- nm - Andie Jul 21, 09:46 3
- Completely agree. I'm just sharing what my doctor said. - sycor Jul 21, 09:49 2
  - seeing firsthand the effects of long haul covid side effects, anything to help at all is a bonus -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 09:49 1
    - Agreed. Though from what he was saying, and again, this is him, even "long haul covid" isn't as much a thing with the new variant. - sycor Jul 21, 09:50

Post a message top

I'm not surprised. My doctor told me today that the vaccines don't really help anymore other than to help keep you out of the hospital.

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.