Data provides more evidence older people should stay up to date on COVID vaccines.
Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines can cut the risk of COVID-related strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks by around 50 percent in people ages 65 years or older and in those with a condition that makes them more vulnerable to those events, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The finding, published this week in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, should help ease concerns that the shots may conversely increase the risk of those events—collectively called thromboembolic events. In January 2023, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration jointly reported a preliminary safety signal from their vaccine-monitoring systems that indicated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines may increase the risk of strokes in the 21 days after vaccination of people ages 65 and older. Since that initial report, that signal decreased, becoming statistically insignificant. Other vaccine monitoring systems, including international systems, have not picked up such a signal. Further studies (summarized here) have not produced clear or consistent data pointing to a link to strokes.
It also cuts back on the likelihood of contracting Long Covid. No reason to not get your shots, people.
For some people there are plenty of “reasons” not to - it doesn’t mean that those reasons are good, valid or even make any sense in a lot of cases.
semantics, it’s like trying to argue that you can breathe underwater or you can eat non-edible deadly wild mushrooms. Doesn’t mean you’ll be able to do it more than once but you can do it…
See how meaningless that is? No shit they have reasons for being antivax but when it is said “there’s no reason to not get the shot”, it’s very much clear they are talking about scientifically sound “good” reasons. Nobody thinks they are antivax for literally NO reason.
I’m waiting for the data about covid eliminating a certain percentage of the conspiracy nuts who didn’t take the vaccine.
Double edged sword. Braindead antivax morons will die because of their own moronic bullshit, which is a demonstrably good thing for society, however those fucking idiots give viruses more attack vectors and spread them farther, extending the potential to mutate.
TV’s Hercules says the exact opposite, and at least I know what he looks like.
