From 8682ed850a7eb768fe3b401806a2ae3ae09acac48fc002fccd71c1ac4a4bb040 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Convert refs: get-the-vaccine --- content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md') diff --git a/content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md b/content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md index 302bbb3..6037d24 100644 --- a/content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md +++ b/content/entry/get-the-vaccine.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ title: "Get the Vaccine" date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- This is a short post encouraging all people that are eligible to get the Covid-19 vaccine. @@ -12,12 +11,12 @@ I got the Moderna vaccine, so I received the second shot one month apart from th # Covid Variants But I get it. Nobody likes being ill. Nobody likes getting shots. But getting your vaccination is a matter of personal and public safety. You're not only putting your own life at risk by not getting the vaccine, you're also risking the community by being a potential host for a more dangerous variant of Covid. The super-contagious delta variant from India is now spreading throughout the world. It's only going to get worse the more people that put off getting vaccinated. -According to the CDC, only 66% of American adults are vaccinated[1]. Dr. Anthony Fauci's guess was that 70-85% of the entire US population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, but that was before the delta variant. It's likely higher now making it even more important for you to get vaccinated. If you still think "waiting to see what happens" is the safer bet, consider that you might catch Covid and die while waiting. It's not clever or safer. You're just playing Russian roulette with a dangerous virus. +According to the CDC, [only 66% of American adults are vaccinated](https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations). Dr. Anthony Fauci's guess was that 70-85% of the entire US population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, but that was before the delta variant. It's likely higher now making it even more important for you to get vaccinated. If you still think "waiting to see what happens" is the safer bet, consider that you might catch Covid and die while waiting. It's not clever or safer. You're just playing Russian roulette with a dangerous virus. # Safety Concerns Many people have heard that the vaccine is experimental, risky, and that people have died from it. So let me address those concerns directly. -The Covid-19 vaccines are new mRNA vaccines. mRNA vaccines do not contain the virus as other vaccines do. mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as not belonging in the body and makes antibodies for it. Then you're protected against Covid-19 without ever catching it. As the CDC website explains[2], these vaccines are new, but they are not unknown. Researchers have been studying mRNA vaccines for decades. +The Covid-19 vaccines are new mRNA vaccines. mRNA vaccines do not contain the virus as other vaccines do. mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as not belonging in the body and makes antibodies for it. Then you're protected against Covid-19 without ever catching it. As the [CDC website](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html) explains, these vaccines are new, but they are not unknown. Researchers have been studying mRNA vaccines for decades. The vaccines available to the public have gone through months of trials being tested on hundreds of thousands of people with no indication that they are unsafe. Hundreds of millions more have been fully vaccinated since, still with no indication that the vaccines are unsafe. @@ -27,8 +26,3 @@ Imagine the researchers that put hard work into creating a safe vaccine for ever # Summary In summary, we have this amazing technology (mRNA vaccines) that can train the immune system against viruses. It has been studied for decades. There's no indication that it's unsafe even after hundreds of millions have been injected with it. There's every indication that whatever risk is associated with taking it is by far less than the risk of Covid. So unless you have a special medical condition, you have every reason to get the shot(s). If you haven't got it yet, what are you waiting on? - - -Link(s): -[1: CDC Covid Data Tracker](https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations) -[2: mRNA Vaccines Explained](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html) -- cgit v1.2.3