last year you were talking about how this virus affects the lungs. you posted a picture on twitter with one set of lungs looking very clear, a noninfected with covid set of lungs, and then an infected set of lungs that look pretty bad, the lungs that might need a ventilator. you were arguing the vaccine would result in the first set of lungs if you contracted covid. a year later, what have we found? well, katy, good afternoon, happy new year. it s interesting, because i believe that the messaging now has widely embraced exactly what myself and my other pulmonary icu colleagues across the country were saying at the time, that vaccines against contagious respiratory viruses keep people away from ventilators. in lung physiology, in lung medicine, we re used to graphic imagery to help people stop
in the noninfected was also shown to save lives and prevent severe disease when given as a treatment within a week of the first symptoms. meantime, many workers are choosing to lose their jobs instead of being vaccinated. tonight a soon-to-be employed pilot who works for a major airline tells us why he s making that choice. here is correspondent alexandria hall. i m not afraid. they can fire me. they re going to have to fire me. i m not going out quietly. the first officer currently flies for major u.s. airline. he has no plans to comply with his employer s vaccine mandate. he is feeling and violates his medical freedom and he said hundreds of his callings are with him. they can t operate a 10% loss of their workgroups. what we are seeing with pilots and forest retirements that primarily started in 2020, ongoing for the next ten years, most airlines are basing between
inferior to the immunity you have after vaccination. and, in fact, there is growing evidence that natural immunity lasts a long time and highly protective against infection and hospitalization. this is a pandemic now not of the noninfected or non-vaccinated but of the nonimmune. second point is the study that dr. collins quoted did not have anything to do with people who had been vaccinated or had natural immunity. what it proved that if you were previously infected, your chance of getting covid in the middle of delta in kentucky was about one in 1,000 to get covid again. if you got vaccinated that dropped it to 1 in 2500. so that s a reduction. but, still, your risks were very, very low. trace: i want to quote this from the cdc study. because it sounds like they included both. this report details the finding of the case controlled evaluation of the association between vaccination and sars cov