Uggh! Things have been absolutely CRAZY at work! So many unvaccinated patients coming in now much more than ever. I just got home after intubating a 40 year old mother. Incidentally, her daughter is also being admitted but is only on a few liters of oxygen at this time. The mother’s last words to her husband were that she wanted to get a divorce as she blames him for persuading their family to not get vaccinated. Given her ventilator demands from day 1, she more than likely won’t have to worry about getting a divorce.
We have increased our staffing by 33% (everyone working extra) to handle the needs, but it’s not nearly enough. It’s unfortunate so many people in the population have fell victim to vaccine paranoia and fear mongering.
Thanks for sharing this. @
mechka_grizli may have been right, but I am all for these types of posts. It is a REAL risk and I am not advising anyone to NOT get vaccinated. As I've said before - on one hand we have people saying Covid kills less than 1% or 0.5% or whatever they want to believe - and acting like that's not a big deal but then turn around and act like you don't want to do something that might give you a 0.01% chance of having a likely non-lethal issue.
Of course, getting Covid isn't voluntary; so that skews the calculations as well.
I wouldn't characterize all skepticism as paranoia and fear mongering - but some of the people who act like they can just tough their way through Covid and it is not a big deal are surely in that category. I would never "convince" a family member not to get vaccinated for this reason. I would share the downsides and things I think need to be considered on both sides of the equation - and normally that calculation falls on the side of getting the vaccine.
People forget, we have the J&J vaccine as well which isn't using mRNA/lipid nanoparticles - so you can avoid the new platform if you are able to get that. That is what I did with myself and my gf, because she has a serious autoimmune disease already and we just didn't want to risk it.
I'm still curious to know if anyone with solid vitamin D levels has had severe covid. I have yet to see that. And everyone I know personally who has a tough time (or worse) with Covid had low levels and those with solid levels, no big deal.
In a virtual plenary poster presented at ASBMR 2021, study authors determined the association between vitamin D status and COVID-19 severity and mortality, as well as the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization.
www.rheumatologyadvisor.com
Yeah, they caught this early on and it seems to have had evidence on both sides, but I see no reason to NOT keep your levels up at this point. 10,000 iu a day for me and everyone in my family.