Should you get a COVID booster? Here are 7 things to consider.
Should you get a COVID booster? Here are 7 things to consider.
When and whether to get a COVID booster should depend on your health status, risk tolerance, timing of last infection and other personal factors, experts say.
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I'm somewhat worried about the rhetoric in the comments here. I've taken 3 shots and I was pretty sure that it didn't do anything to harm me but I've lately noticed a lot of sudden COVID like symptoms without every having had COVID (except for once in early 2020) and it feels like my immune system and my general health have taken quite a hit over the past 2 years since getting the first shot. I'm relatively fit, often active, healthy diet. Before switching to a more alkaline diet I felt very fatigued since my 3rd shot, had strange muscle cramps and sudden muscle twitches that I couldn't explain and it's gotten worse over this year. I've been using breathwork, supplements and an even more healthy diet to regain some of my health from before 2021.
There are studies and statistics showing a worrying trend of rising excess deaths since the vaccination campaign started, often even showing almost no rise in deaths despite COVID being reported as being very deadly, especially to old people. Sure, could be nothing in the grand scheme of things, I don't know, I'm not a medical professional but a lot of these numbers are too widespread to be just part of some right wing anti-science nutjob's disinfo campaign.
Please don't forget that you're talking to people here and that you're giving pretty strict medical advice without really knowing anything about OP or the people just scrolling by. Vaccines, as any other medical treatment, have risks and come with side effects. In order for people to be able to consent to a medical treatment, they shouldn't be socially pressured to do if it may be detrimental to their health.
The thing about a report like this is you could just as easily have gotten an asymptomatic COVID infection at some point and now be experiencing long COVID rather than symptoms as a result of the vaccine itself.
We have a person in the office who is now dead set against having any more vaccines because her blood pressure has increased a lot recently and she's positive its vaccine-related. But that seems fairly unlikely, plus she has been someone who after a few vaccines started claiming she'd had doctors tell her that COVID wasn't that bad, so she's traveled a ton compared to almost everyone else in the office, which to my mind makes it much more likely she got an asymptomatic version and now is suffering after-effects of that.
But then again, I'm not medical professional either. This is just me pointing out that correlation is not causation.
Statistics are definitely showing increased excess deaths since the vaccinations began in Germany. You can find similar reports about other countries as well.
It's almost like a pandemic happened around the same time the vaccine came out
Very weird that you would blame the vaccine and not the deadly and disabling virus that is the 3rd leading cause of death proven to cause various health issues, increased chance of heart attacks, brain damage, and has killed and disabled millions of people worldwide.
If you're not going to share the sources of these "studies and sources" or provide a meaningful definition of "excess deaths" then you're asking complete strangers to rely on anecdotal evidence and your own personal judgement. Seems far more irresponsible than sharing an article with multiple public health organizations and medical professionals among it sources.
You have covid symptoms but not covid? How do you know you don’t have covid? You could also have gotten long covid from asymptomatic infections.