Your chance of getting a treatable blood clot from AstraZeneca in Canada is at 1 in 275,000
1 in 5,757 Saskatchewan adults between 40-59 have died of COVID.
Adults between 40-59 in SK have a 48 TIMES higher chance of dying of COVID than getting a treatable blood clot from AZ.
Your chance of getting a treatable blood clot from AstraZeneca in Canada is at 1 in 275,000
1 in 1,331 Saskatchewan adults between 60-79 have died of COVID.
Adults between 60-79 in SK have a 207 TIMES higher chance of dying of COVID than getting a treatable blood clot from AZ.
Your chance of getting a treatable blood clot from AstraZeneca in Canada is at 1 in 275,000
1 in 219 Saskatchewan adults over age 80 have died of COVID.
Adults over 80 in SK have a 1,256 TIMES higher chance of dying of COVID than getting a treatable blood clot from AZ.
The point is that even at the youngest age group (under 40), the risk of DYING of COVID (let alone hospitalization / ICU stay) is way higher than any vaccine risk with COVID rates the way they are.
And if you’re over 40? This is a slam-dunk decision. Stay safe. Get vaccinated.
Update from NACI:
NACI has recommended the AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged 30+ where they have elevated risk and where they’d have to wait for an mRNA vaccine.
I think I can explain the elevated risk part of it...
This graphic is from the UK. This is for people with ‘low’ exposure risk. Meaning little COVID floating around, for example.
You can see here that if there’s not much COVID, the benefit of AZ really shows itself in 30+.
Now what if you’re at high risk of exposure? The math changes quite a bit. Now you’re more likely to get in the ICU. Consider Ontario, Alberta, BC, SK... places high rates of COVID and lots of variants.
This reflects the thread I have above. The risk from COVID is very high.
Ok, so what if you have to wait awhile to get an mRNA vaccine? (The mRNA vaccines haven’t shown a signal of these rare clots.)
Sitting around unvaccinated in a place with a lot of COVID is very risky. You gain by getting vaccinated quickly! It’ll keep you from getting very sick.
For example, what if you’re in Saskatchewan and this is going on?
Seems like AstraZeneca may be helpful here. Seems like there’s a significant risk to ‘waiting’ for an mRNA vaccine.
Also, it’s younger people who are getting sick now.
Which is why I’m a little concerned about NACI being a little wishy-washy in their recommendation on “if people don’t want to wait”. Like, my dudes, people are dying here.
Here’s the thing, we’re “managing” right now because the variant load is still mostly in Regina & patients can be spread elsewhere. But if/when the variants go widespread... there’s no longer ‘some’ triaging.
You know, @Kinger999 is right, Saskatchewan should set a target that says Mosaic Stadium will be open at full capacity for the Riders if the province hits an 85% adult vaccination rate.
Just pass out a watermelon helmet with every vaccination card. Come on people, this isn’t hard to figure out!
I did the math. Great West Pil is $35 for 24 right now. It would cost $1.16M to give the first 85% of all Sask adults a Pilsner with their vaccination.
Getting vaccinated against COVID should be easiest thing anyone does in society. You should be able to call out your window and a public health nurse floats down like Mary Fucking Poppins and jabs you with the end of their umbrella.
How can we coordinate hundreds of locations with multiple different eligibility criteria?
If I want a donair, Skip The Fucking Dishes will connect me with the closest one and give me a 15 minute time frame. I don’t have to phone 8 different donair waiting lists.
True story: for a few years I traveled with @kgillese & @arlenkonopaki doing tech for their show Scratch, where they created hilarious stories out of thin air dailu.
I learned a metric tonne from those guys and I love seeing the stuff they’re up to now.
So, @DrKyle has a thread here about vaccine hesitancy, and how this may be concern in Saskatchewan. And while I don’t disagree that vaccine hesitancy is a concern, I think it’s important to reframe how we think about it.
We tend to view vaccine hesitancy as some sort of binary. You’re either for the vaccine or against it. But it’s not as simple as that.
For instance, here we see that the rate of vaccination for 60-69 year olds is starting to drop off. But I think it isn’t quite fair to view it as vaccine ‘denial’.
(Though, I very much appreciate the work he put into gathering this data & think there’s ‘potential’ concern)
Provinces have mostly followed NACI recommendations. Initially they held back giving AZ to 65, which was a NACI recommendation. They’re also holding off on the 2nd dose for 4 months, also a NACI recommendation.
However, NACI also provided specific recommendations for vaccine administration. Provinces followed this variably. Sask only followed some of those suggestions.