Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces? New interactive tool helps people make decisions on COVID-19.
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Statistical secrets of Covid-19 vaccines
The old question is in the world of public health: do all of these numbers exceed whether they help people. But it seems that more and more information about vaccines is alleviating doubts rather than exacerbating them. It’s about how people view their risk profiles. “If you get Covid, you get 100% Covid and if you don’t, it’s 0% Covid,” Olliaro says. “You have to consider the perspective of the individual within the community.”
One of them the characteristics of the pandemic have been that it affects different groups of people in different ways. In the US, poor people and people of color are much easier to get sick and die with Covid-19z than white and rich people. The elderly are at greater risk than the young.
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Unforeseen safety issues routinely emerge after any new medicine or vaccine goes from testing in tens of thousands of volunteers to actual public use on tens of millions. So it was no major surprise when an extremely small percentage of people developed a strange blood clotting problem after receiving either the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine or the AstraZeneca shot, which is widely used outside of the U.S.
Rare but dangerous side effects from vaccines can present a tricky dilemma for public health authorities. In this case, the life-threatening blood clots, accompanied by an oddly low count of clot-promoting platelets, appear to strike about two individuals per million people vaccinated with J&J’s shot and about one per 100,000 receiving AstraZeneca’s. Both are minuscule risks, compared with COVID-19 itself, which, by one estimate, k