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From ones body perspective. What is the reason to take vaccine risk if you are healthy <~50/have no disease that complicate covid recovery?

From societal perspective, why would you do it if you can transmit it in the same amount as if you are not vaccinated?

Doesn't makes sense to me, but well..

I do think that it's a good thing for people that have disease that can complicate covid recovery and older generations.

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The risk of dying or long-term complications from COVID if you're under 50 is not insignificant, especially on the upper end. Here's a pretty good graph of the estimated IFR by age [1]. (So far, there hasn't been a significant difference in lethality in the new strains).

The graph shows about a .1% chance of death at age 50 if you catch COVID-19. The chance of hospitalization and potential long-term symptoms is a multiple of that.

Vaccinated folks have a lower chance of catching COVID, so as a whole, they have a lower chance of spreading it.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/#&gid=article-figur...

If you check my comment you will see that I agree that its good thing for people with associated diseases that can complicate recovery:).

So age and associated diseases should be deciding factor for every person. Or are you proposing something else?:)

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