Unvaccinated South Africans have a 5 times higher risk of
COVID-19 infection and 20 times higher risk of dying from
COVID complications than people who are fully vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination.
People who had received 2 shots of the Pfizer vaccine had a 92% lower risk of hospitalisation and 94% lower risk of death from COVID than those who had not been vaccinated. This was up to 3 months after the two shots.
A single shot offered significant protection, reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death by 73% and 79% respectively after 14 days.
Regarding prior infection and immunity;
Shirley Collie, Discovery Health's chief health analytics actuary said that 11,500 Discovery Health members had tested positive for COVID-19 a 2nd time and 37 had tested positive 3 times.
In terms of side effects:
Swelling of the lymph nodes was the most prevalent, followed by inflammation of arm muscles and tingling in hands and feet. People who contracted Covid-19 were more likely to experience these symptoms than those who had the vaccine.
Potentially fatal Covid-19 complications like pulmonary embolism , acute kidney injury, anaemia, heart rhythm disturbances and myocarditis were also more prevalent in people with Covid-19 than as a side effect of the vaccine.
Dr Ronald Whelan, the head of Discovery’s Covid-19 task team said:
There were very few adverse vaccine-related events reported at the Discovery sites and no vaccine-related deaths.
Does Remdesivir treatment significantly affect mortality, clinical outcomes, or time to improvement in patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19?
Summary: No, it does not.
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"Remdesivir treatment did not significantly affect mortality, clinical outcomes, or time to improvement in patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19, found a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases."
"The data included results from the DisCoVeRy trial, which the researchers say is the fifth large randomised controlled trial to include remdesivir thus far. The cohort was recruited from 48 sites in Europe, with 39 sites in France"
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Published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ), the CDC's weekly journal.
Do masks help limit SARS-COV-2 transmission?
Answer: Yes they do.
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"Masking, along with fewer exposure encounters, helped significantly to cut the incidence of COVID-19 infection among largely unvaccinated US university students"
"Among nearly 400 close contacts of students who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the likelihood of a positive test result was more than five times higher in situations where at least one of the two individuals was unmasked versus situations where both were masked."
Can the government constitutionally require that everyone be vaccinated against Covid-19?
"The simple answer is it can.
That it hasn’t is because it decided as a matter of policy not to do so."
"The WHO’s Expanded Programme of Immunisation targets six vaccine preventable..
...diseases: polio, diphtheria, TB, whooping cough, measles and tetanus. In 1974 only about 5% of the world’s children were protected from these diseases; today, 83% are. South Africa participates in this programme and over the past 20 years, immunisation has saved millions"
"It has been reported that nearly all Covid deaths in the US are now among the unvaccinated. The California Department of Health and Environmental Control in a recent analysis has shown that 90% of Covid-19 cases and deaths in June 2021 and 86% of hospitalisations were among..