more covid vaccine math
Sep. 23rd, 2023 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In the previous post I was basing my calculation on a shaky assumption that CDC provides the correct numbers in our best interest. What if it doesn't?
Here are the calculations that I trust more:
If I chose not to vaccinate my teen son, the probability of heart inflammation from covid is 0.05X multiplied by (probability of getting covid) multiplied by (vaccine effectiveness in preventing covid).
0.05X*0.01*0.2=0.0001X
If I chose to vaccinate my teen son the probability of heart inflammation is
X+0.05X*0.01*0.8=1.0004X
Final difference being 10000X in favor of not vaccinating. May be that is why European countries do not recommend to vaccinate children, unless they have a condition that makes their odds of covid complication very grim.
Here are the calculations that I trust more:
If I chose not to vaccinate my teen son, the probability of heart inflammation from covid is 0.05X multiplied by (probability of getting covid) multiplied by (vaccine effectiveness in preventing covid).
0.05X*0.01*0.2=0.0001X
If I chose to vaccinate my teen son the probability of heart inflammation is
X+0.05X*0.01*0.8=1.0004X
Final difference being 10000X in favor of not vaccinating. May be that is why European countries do not recommend to vaccinate children, unless they have a condition that makes their odds of covid complication very grim.
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Date: 2023-09-24 05:22 am (UTC)она странная.
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Date: 2023-09-24 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-24 05:48 am (UTC)If I chose not to vaccinate my teen son, the probability of heart inflammation from covid is 5X multiplied by (probability of getting covid) multiplied by (vaccine effectiveness in preventing covid).
на мой взгляд, не убедительный подход. вы статью точно читали? и данные в ней смотрели?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021987/
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Date: 2023-09-24 05:54 am (UTC)В вашем комментарии ниже вы подтверждаете один из выводов статьи (28-day risk of death, hospital readmission rates, and development of heart failure appear low, especially in the younger age groups). Но это статья начала 2022 года, когда еще не было статей с результатами follow up исследований детей после проблем с сердцем.
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Date: 2023-09-24 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-24 07:00 am (UTC)но конечно есть всякие другие нюансы.
кончено, было б классно, если б у вакцины не было побочек. увы, недостижимо. чем хуже возбудитель, тем побочнее прививка.
кончно, было б здорово, если б привика "работала" на защиту и формирование популяционного иммунитета. и предотарвщала бы болезнь.
увы, это тоже не так.
так что нужно действительно думать и взвешивать риски, но только более адекватным способом, чем предложенное умножение (на мой взгляд, а вы, конечно, как хотите)
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