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BEERandWEED posted...

You are also presuming that the shot would have prevented this person's death. That is not guaranteed.

Most available data is showing somewhere in the range of a 500-1000-fold reduction in the risk of death. It's not guaranteed (almost nothing is), no, but describing this death as easily preventable is completely accurate. This is very readily comparable to somebody being killed in a car accident because they weren't wearing their seat belt.

BEERandWEED posted...

If we stop killing for profit, feeding to sustain and housing to maintain, there would be substantially less death, guaranteed.

Now you're comparing a statistical reduction in death to an individual case. If the entire world were to be vaccinated against Covid, there would be substantially fewer Covid deaths, guaranteed. Meanwhile, you cannot necessarily guarantee that any individual death from violence, starvation, or exposure would be prevented by peacekeeping, food, or housing initiatives.

Also, once again, taking two shots is not remotely comparable to the difficulty and effort involved in eliminating war, famine, and homelessness. Heck, it's not even comparable to the difficulty and effort involved in ensuring that one person is saved from those things. Nor, for that matter, is this one kid getting vaccinated in any way mutually exclusive of global efforts to reduce the impacts of those things. It's not a good analogy, and it's not a matter of choosing to focus on one over the other, so why are you even bringing it up?

jramirez23 posted...

Yeah that sounds odd. Like I wonder if maybe he got the staph infection from the hospital environment.

The way duckbear's described it, it sounds like he developed the infection before he got to the hospital, which isn't that unbelievable. S. aureus is pretty commonly found on the skin and in the upper respiratory tract; pretty much anything that compromises the integrity of those areas creates the risk of it getting into other parts of the body and creating an infection (hospital-acquired staph tends to be associated with intravenous and urinary catheters, since they risk introducing external pathogens into the blood). In this case, Covid's damage to his sinuses created an opportunity for the staph to move in and cause further trouble.

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