Are pregnant women not allowed to be vaccinated? I thought a lot of them were just choosing not to. In any event, I agree with everything here, especially the point about the immunocompromised (who can get vaccinated but may not have a response). The only people I know of who cannot get a vaccination are young children (low risk) and people undergoing certain cancer treatments. I assume this means things like bone marrow transplants and the like, because Mayo was recommending that all their outpatient cancer patients go ahead and get Pfizer or Moderna but time it with their chemo. Those bone marrow transplant patients can't even leave the hospital, and pretty much any virus will kill them, it doesn't have to be COVID.Senseye wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 2:24 pmI would like to see this quantified. From what I can tell, most of the people who "can't be vaccinated" probably can be vaccinated. It's just that clinical trials haven't yet been conducted on them. Children for example. Children seem to be at very low risk from serious illness from covid so I don't worry about them too much.
Pregnant/breastfeeding women are another group and again the issues is probably they could be vaccinated, but no trial data. Guess they will have to isolate until they feel safe.
There is probably a small group of allergic and/or immunocompromised who may never be able to be vaccinated. One in a million? One in a 100K? Sucks to be them I suppose, but I suspect their issues are much broader than just covid exposure.
Not that I am pro anti-vaxxer or anything. But at a certain point people are just going to be stupid, and you just have to let the chips fall where they may.
There are plenty of populations who are vaccine hesitant because they have some condition like autoimmune disease. I can understand their hesitation but I assume those people, if they were to get COVID, would be highly likely to die and they would be better off getting the vaccine than taking their chances. However, if they want to continue to isolate and wear masks when they absolutely must leave the house, that is their choice.