Actually - being recovered from Covid and being vaccinated are both effective.
I actually attended (online) a lecture by Fauci today and he gave us an update. Also gonna drop some truth bombs.
There is some evidence that we are reaching endemic rather than pandemic proportions. So the number of infected + vaccinated has grown to the point that spread has seriously diminished. Hopefully we are on the downside of the last wave, not unlike what happened with the last wave of Spanish Flu a century ago.
There is the theoretical benefit to having had the infection in that you would have developed antibodies to all parts of the viral particle, not just the spike protein (there are at least 4 different proteins). So it's probably unnecessary for the previously-infected to get a vaccine. Although those people who have been infected and then vaccinated have a ten- fold higher titer of antibodies.
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However, getting your immunity through infection comes at a high cost (2.3% mortality risk). Also no risk of "Long Covid" with the vaccine.
We also know that immunity wanes. with the vaccine you go from a 94-98% protected to perhaps 80% at 6 months ( although the unvaccinated are 10 times more likely to die from COVID).
He didn't mention anything about Joe Rogan. Or Joe Biden, for that matter.
Zithromax doesn't work against the common cold. It's for atypical pneumonia. Giving a zpack for the common cold is a non-creative delay tactic that the doc-in-the-box gives you in order to (1) get you out of the busy exam room, (2) satisfy your desire to take drugs, and (3) boost his patient satisfaction scores. Nature takes its course and you start feeling better when you start exhausting the Z pack in 5 days.
There has never been a trial to prove efficacy of ivermectin for treating COVID. It had been shown to be effective in vitro (in a Petri dish) against the viral particles at 400 times the recommended dose. I'm glad your loved one survived covid after taking ivermectin. However, correlation does not prove causation.
Let me know if any of this isn't logical. I probably won't respond though.
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